Colossians 2:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Rom 2:29 : 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 6:6 : 6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
  • Col 3:8-9 : 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk; 9 Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.
  • Luke 2:21 : 21 And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.
  • Acts 7:48 : 48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,
  • Acts 17:24 : 24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
  • Eph 2:10-18 : 10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them. 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; 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down, 15 Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace; 16 And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division. 17 And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near; 18 Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

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    12 Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

    13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

    14 Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

  • Eph 2:11-13
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    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;

    12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

    13 But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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    9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

    10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

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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.

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

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    9 Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

    10 And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

    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.

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    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Gal 6:15
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    15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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    1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

  • Gal 5:24
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    24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

  • Rom 8:9-10
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    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

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

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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 5:1-2
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    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.

  • Col 3:3
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    3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

  • 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.

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    22 In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

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

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    7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

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    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

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    27 For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.

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    4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

    5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

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    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

    24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • Gal 2:20
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    20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

  • 1 Cor 7:18
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    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.

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    14 In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

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    27 To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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    1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;