Colossians 2:11

American Standard Version (1901)

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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  • Rom 2:29 : 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
  • Col 3:8-9 : 8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.
  • Luke 2:21 : 21 And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called JESUS, which was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
  • Acts 7:48 : 48 Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in [houses] made with hands; as saith the prophet,
  • Acts 17:24 : 24 The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
  • Eph 2:10-18 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, [so] making peace; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh: 18 for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.

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    12having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

    13And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

    14having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

  • Eph 2:11-13
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    11Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

    12that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

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    9for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

    10and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

    26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

    27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

    28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

    29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Phil 3:3
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    3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

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    9lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

    10and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

    11where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Gal 6:15
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    15For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you [did he make alive], when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

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    24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

  • Rom 8:9-10
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    9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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    3For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

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    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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    22yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

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    11And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.

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    7wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;

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    11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

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    27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

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    4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

    5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;

    6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

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    22that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

    23and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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    20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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    5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

  • 1 Cor 7:18
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    18Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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    14in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:

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    20But ye did not so learn Christ;

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    27to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;