1 Corinthians 7:19

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Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what matters.

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  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but what matters is a new creation.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and in all.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who keep His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments. 4 Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Then Samuel said, 'Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.'
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, so that it may go well with you.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 So whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • Rom 2:25-29 : 25 Circumcision indeed has value if you obey the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the righteous requirements of the law, will their uncircumcision not be regarded as circumcision? 27 The one who is not physically circumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker. 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. Such a person’s praise is not from people, but from God.
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 Since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the same faith.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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  • 1 Cor 7:17-18
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    17 Nevertheless, each person should live as the Lord has assigned them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

    18 Was anyone called after being circumcised? Let him not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25 Circumcision indeed has value if you obey the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26 So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the righteous requirements of the law, will their uncircumcision not be regarded as circumcision?

    27 The one who is not physically circumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

    28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.

    29 But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. Such a person’s praise is not from people, but from God.

  • Gal 6:15
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    15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but what matters is a new creation.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20 Each person should remain in the condition in which they were called.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    1 For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

    2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

    3 Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

  • John 7:22-23
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    22 Because of this, Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

    23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

  • Rom 3:30
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    30 Since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the same faith.

  • Gen 17:10-14
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    10 This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

    11 You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

    12 Every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, both those born in your household and those bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

    13 Every male born in your household or bought with your money must be circumcised. Thus, My covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

    14 But any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13 For even those who are circumcised do not keep the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so they can boast about your flesh.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9 Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

    10 How then was it credited? Was it while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? It was not while he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

    11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness might also be credited to them,

    12 and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

  • Acts 21:25
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    25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19 Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16 Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

  • Lev 12:3
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    3 On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Gal 2:7
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    7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter was to the circumcised—

  • Gal 2:3
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    3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, though he was Greek, was forced to be circumcised.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1 What advantage is there, then, in being a Jew? Or what benefit is there in circumcision?

  • Phil 3:3
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    3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, glory in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24 Brothers and sisters, each one should remain with God in the condition they were in when called.

  • Acts 15:1
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    1 Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

  • Col 3:11
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    11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and in all.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11 Therefore, remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called 'the uncircumcision' by those who are called 'the circumcision,' which is done in the flesh by human hands—

  • Acts 15:24
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    24 Since we have heard that some have gone out from us and troubled you with teachings, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no such instructions,

  • Jer 9:25
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    25 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all who live in the wilderness and shave the edges of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

  • Col 2:11
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    11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 Brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, the offense of the cross would be eliminated.

  • Gen 34:22
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    22 Only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and become one people: every male among us must be circumcised, just as they are.

  • Rom 14:14
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    14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

  • Acts 15:5
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    5 But some believers from the sect of the Pharisees stood up and declared, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."

  • Exod 12:48
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    48 If an alien resides among you and wants to observe the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may come near to observe it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23 On that very day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and circumcised them, as God had told him.

  • Gen 34:15
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    15 However, we will agree to you on one condition: if you become like us by every male among you being circumcised.

  • Titus 1:14
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    14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.