1 Corinthians 7:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

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  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision matters nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24 And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep 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 And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
  • Rom 2:25-29 : 25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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  • 1 Cor 7:17-18
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    17But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

    18Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

    27And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?

    28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

    29But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

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

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

    3For I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

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

    23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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

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

    11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

    12And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations, he who is born in the house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

    13He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How was it then credited? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

    12And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised.

  • Acts 21:25
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    25As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

  • Lev 12:3
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    3And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Gal 2:7
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    7But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised was committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter;

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    3But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

  • Rom 3:1
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    1What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision?

  • Phil 3:3
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    3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.

  • Acts 15:1
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    1And certain men who came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.

  • Col 3:11
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    11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Therefore, remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

  • Acts 15:24
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    24Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, You must be circumcised and keep the law—to whom we gave no such commandment—

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

  • Col 2:11
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    11In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

  • Gal 5:11
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    11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

  • Gen 34:22
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    22Only in this will the men consent to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

  • Rom 14:14
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    14I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • Acts 15:5
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    5But there arose certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

  • Exod 12:48
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    48And when a stranger dwells with you, and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is native to the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very same day, as God had said to him.

  • Gen 34:15
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    15But in this will we consent unto you: If you will become as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

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    14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.