Ephesians 2:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Col 2:11 : 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;
  • Col 2:13 : 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;
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
  • 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.
  • Col 1:21 : 21 And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
  • Ezek 36:31 : 31 And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 2:15 : 15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
  • Gal 4:8-9 : 8 But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods: 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
  • Gal 6:12 : 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.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
  • 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:
  • Deut 5:15 : 15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
  • Deut 9:7 : 7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.
  • Deut 15:15 : 15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.
  • Deut 16:12 : 12 And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken. 2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh; 26 On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
  • Ezek 16:61-63 : 61 Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement. 62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord: 63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

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

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

    12Having 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.

    13And 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;

    14Having 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 2:12-13
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    12That 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.

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

  • Eph 2:9-10
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    9Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

    10For 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.

  • Rom 2:24-29
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    24For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

    25It 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.

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

    27And 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.

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

    29But 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18If 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.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • Col 3:10-11
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    10And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

    11Where 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.

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

  • Gal 2:15
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  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

    2In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

    3Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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    7But, 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

    8(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

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

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    12Those 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.

    13Because 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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    10How, 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:

    11And 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;

    12And 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.

  • Gen 17:11
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    11In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

  • Eph 2:19
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    19So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

  • Gal 2:3
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    3But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

  • Eph 3:5-6
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    5Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

    6Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

  • 1 Pet 2:10
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    10In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

  • Col 1:21-22
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    21And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

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

  • Rom 3:30
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    30If 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.

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

  • Gal 4:8
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    8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Gal 5:2
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    2See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

  • Rom 2:14
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    14For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

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    20If 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