Philippians 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
  • Gen 17:12 : 12 He 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.
  • Gen 40:15 : 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
  • Gen 41:12 : 12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
  • 1 Sam 4:6 : 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
  • Luke 1:59 : 59 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
  • Luke 2:21 : 21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
  • John 7:21-24 : 21 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23 If 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? 24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
  • Gen 14:13 : 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
  • Acts 26:4-5 : 4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; 5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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  • Phil 3:6-7
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    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

    7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

  • Acts 22:2-4
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    2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

    3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

    4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

  • Phil 3:3-4
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    3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

    4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  • Gal 1:13-16
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    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

    14 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

    15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

    16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • Acts 26:4-5
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    4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

    5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Rom 11:1
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    1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Acts 23:6
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    6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

  • 1 Cor 9:20-21
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    20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

    21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    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.

  • Acts 15:5
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    5 But 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."

  • Gal 2:15-16
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    15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Gal 5:3
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    3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

  • Rom 9:3-4
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    3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

    4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

  • Acts 16:3
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    3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • Rom 2:17-18
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    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

    18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

  • Acts 13:39
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    39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Acts 24:14
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    14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

  • Acts 26:9-10
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    9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    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.

    13 For 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.

  • Acts 26:12
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    12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

  • Gal 1:22-23
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    22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

    23 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

  • Acts 9:1
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    1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

  • Acts 22:12
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    12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

  • Phil 3:12
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    12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 1:3
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    3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

  • Gal 3:9
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    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.