1 Corinthians 7:19

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; 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 in by the gates into the city.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave 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. His commandments are not grievous.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I didn't 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, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them 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 indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? 27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of 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 not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, 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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    17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

    18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of 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 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 is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

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

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

  • John 7:22-23
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    22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

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

  • Rom 3:30
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    30since indeed 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 seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

    11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

    12He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

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

    14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul 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 look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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

    11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Acts 21:25
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    25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

  • Acts 15:19
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    19"Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

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

  • Gal 2:7
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    7but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

  • Gal 2:3
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    3But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of 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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    24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

  • Acts 15:1
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    1Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."

  • Col 3:11
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    11where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

  • Acts 15:24
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    24Because 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 commandment;

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

  • Col 2:11
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    11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Gal 5:11
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    11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • Gen 34:22
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    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live 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 persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • Acts 15:5
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    5But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

  • Exod 12:48
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    48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23Abraham took Ishmael his son, 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 in the same day, as God had said to him.

  • Gen 34:15
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    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.