Genesis 17:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Acts 7:8 : 8 And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.
  • Col 2:11-12 : 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; 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.
  • Rom 2:28-3:1 : 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 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
  • Rom 3:25 : 25 Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
  • Rom 3:28 : 28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.
  • 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.
  • Rom 4:9-9 : 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;
  • 1 Cor 7:18-19 : 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 3:28 : 28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 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. 5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • 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 2:11 : 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;
  • 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:
  • Gen 17:11 : 11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
  • Gen 34:15 : 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;
  • Exod 4:25 : 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.
  • Exod 12:48 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Josh 5:2 : 2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.
  • Josh 5:4 : 4 And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • John 7:22 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 17:4-9
    6 verses
    89%

    4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

    5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

    6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

    7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

    8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

    9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

  • Gen 17:11-15
    5 verses
    88%

    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.

    15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

  • Gen 17:23-27
    5 verses
    79%

    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.

    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

    25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

    26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

    27 And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.

  • Gen 17:19
    76%

    19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

  • Gen 17:2
    76%

    2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

  • Gen 17:21
    74%

    21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

  • Acts 7:8
    74%

    8 And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

  • Gen 9:9
    74%

    9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

  • Lev 12:3
    73%

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

  • Gen 34:15
    73%

    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;

  • Gen 9:12
    73%

    12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

  • Gen 21:4
    73%

    4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

  • Gen 34:22
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 22:18
    72%

    18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

  • Ps 105:9
    72%

    9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    72%

    16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • Deut 10:16
    71%

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

  • Gen 9:17
    71%

    17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.

  • Gen 22:16
    71%

    16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

  • Gal 3:15
    71%

    15 Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

  • Acts 3:25
    70%

    25 You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

  • Deut 30:6
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:19
    70%

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

  • Gen 26:3
    70%

    3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

  • Rom 4:12
    70%

    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.

  • Rom 4:10
    69%

    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:

  • Heb 11:18
    69%

    18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name: