Acts 16:3

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Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

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  • Gal 2:3 : 3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
  • Gal 2:8 : 8 (for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
  • Gal 5:1-3 : 1 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery. 2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all! 3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
  • Acts 15:37 : 37 Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,
  • Acts 15:40 : 40 but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.
  • 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
  • 1 Cor 9:20 : 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

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  • Gal 2:3-4
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    3Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Acts 16:1-2
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    1Timothy Joins Paul and Silas He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

    2The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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

  • Acts 16:4
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    4As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

  • Acts 21:21
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    21They have been informed about you– that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

  • Acts 9:30
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    30When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

  • Acts 15:1-2
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    1The Jerusalem Council Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers,“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

    2When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.

  • Acts 11:2-3
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    2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

    3saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

  • Gal 2:12
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    12Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

  • Gal 2:7-10
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    7On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

    8(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

    9and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

    10They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

  • Acts 21:29
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    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

  • Acts 18:18-19
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    18Paul Returns to Antioch in Syria Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.

    19When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

  • Acts 15:5
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    5But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said,“It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

  • Acts 18:3-5
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    3and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them(for they were tentmakers by trade).

    4He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

    5Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Acts 18:27
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    27When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

    16to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

  • Acts 28:17
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    17Paul Addresses the Jewish Community in Rome After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them,“Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

  • Acts 15:24
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    24Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7For they have gone forth on behalf of“The Name,” accepting nothing from the pagans.

  • Rom 2:28-29
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    28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

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

  • Gal 5:3
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    3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

  • Acts 14:6
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    6Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

  • Phil 3:5
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    5I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

  • Acts 17:1
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    1Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

  • Acts 21:12
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    12When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 20:2
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    2After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

  • Acts 14:1
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    1Paul and Barnabas at Iconium The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

  • Phil 3:3
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    3For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

  • Eph 3:1
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    1Paul’s Relationship to the Divine Mystery For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

  • Acts 15:19
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    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

  • Acts 22:19
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    19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.

  • Rom 15:8
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    8For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

  • Phil 2:22
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    22But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

  • Acts 16:10
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    10After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.