1 Corinthians 7:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

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  • Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes. 23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us. 24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
  • Rom 2:25-29 : 25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not. 26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision? 27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 7:17-18
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    17 Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.

    18 If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

    26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

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

  • Gal 6:15
    78%

    15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20 Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    73%

    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

  • John 7:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

    23 If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

  • Rom 3:30
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    30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

  • Gen 17:10-14
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    72%

    10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

    11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

    12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

    13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

    14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12 Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

    13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    71%

    9 Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

    10 How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

    11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

    12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

  • Acts 21:25
    70%

    25 But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

  • Acts 15:19
    70%

    19 For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

  • Deut 10:16
    69%

    16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

  • Lev 12:3
    69%

    3 And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

  • Gal 2:7
    69%

    7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

  • Gal 2:3
    69%

    3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

  • Rom 3:1
    69%

    1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

  • Phil 3:3
    69%

    3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

  • 1 Cor 7:24
    68%

    24 My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

  • Acts 15:1
    68%

    1 Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

  • Col 3:11
    67%

    11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

  • Eph 2:11
    67%

    11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

  • Acts 15:24
    67%

    24 Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

  • Jer 9:25
    67%

    25 See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

  • Col 2:11
    67%

    11 In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Gal 5:11
    67%

    11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

  • Gen 34:22
    67%

    22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

  • Rom 14:14
    67%

    14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

  • Acts 15:5
    67%

    5 But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

  • Exod 12:48
    66%

    48 And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

  • Gen 17:23
    66%

    23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

  • Gen 34:15
    66%

    15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14 Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.