Bible Verses About Circumcision
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For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Scripture Passages
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abrahamโs house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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