Galatians 6:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
  • Eph 2:10 : 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.
  • Eph 4:24 : 24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
  • Col 3:10-11 : 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.
  • Rom 2:28 : 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
  • Rev 21:5 : 5 And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.

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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.

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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.

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

  • Gal 6:12-14
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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.

    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • 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.

  • Col 3:10-11
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    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.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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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.

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

    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

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    16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

    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.

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

  • 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 3:28-29
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    28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

    29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

  • 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.

  • Rom 4:9-10
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    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 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;

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

  • Gal 6:16-17
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    16 And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

    17 From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.

  • 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.

  • Rom 8:8-9
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    8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

    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.

  • 16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • 6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • 17 For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

  • 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.

  • 1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

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

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

  • 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;

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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;

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    29 So that no flesh might have glory before God.

    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:

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

  • 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.

  • 9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.