Ephesians 2:11

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore 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);

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  • Col 2:11 : 11 in 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;
  • Col 2:13 : 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
  • 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.
  • Col 1:21 : 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
  • Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 2:15 : 15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
  • Gal 4:8-9 : 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 As 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.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
  • Deut 5:15 : 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 9:7 : 7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
  • Deut 15:15 : 15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
  • Deut 16:12 : 12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 "Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
  • Ezek 16:61-63 : 61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."

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    10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

    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;

    12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

    13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

    14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

  • Eph 2:12-13
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    12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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    9not of works, that no one would boast.

    10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • Rom 2:24-29
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    24For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

    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.

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

    19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

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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;

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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

    2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

    3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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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

    8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

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    15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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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.

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    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.

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

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    19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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

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    5which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

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    2You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

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    10who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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    21You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

    22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

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    30since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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

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    8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

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    11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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

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    14(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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    20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,