<p>6:15 <i>For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything. What counts is being a new creation</i>- This seems to parallel 5:6 &quot;For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love&quot;. Paul's argument so far has been: Faith rather than works results in an identification with the Lord Jesus as the seed of Abraham; for to him were the promises of salvation made, and not through the Law. That faith and identification with Christ is confirmed by the Spirit being sent forth into our hearts (4:5), which results in love as the fruit of the Spirit (5:22). In that way, faith works through love. The parallel to that is that &quot;what counts is being a new creation&quot;; in other words, being created as Christ, being created as a Son of God as Jesus was, with His spirit whereby we also cry out &quot;Abba, Father&quot; just as He did. So the new creation in view is that we are created to be as Christ. Hence if any man is <i>in Christ</i> he is a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). The language of &quot;new creation&quot; need not call up ideas of planets and a new cosmos. The new person created is Christ. Hence &quot;the rule&quot; of the new creation (:16) is another way of saying &quot;the law of Christ&quot;. The Lord Jesus is &quot;the image of every new creation&quot; (Col. 1:15); we are made / created like Him, by the agency of the Spirit. He is thus &quot;the beginning of the creation of God&quot; (Rev. 3:14). Hence the Gospel was preached to &quot;every creation&quot; (Col. 1:23), i.e. every convert. No &quot;creation&quot; is not open to the scrutiny of God's Word in Christ (Heb. 4:13). Clearly, &quot;creation&quot; was a title for believers in the early church, so common was this idea.</p>