Ephesians 2:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

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  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,
  • Col 2:13 : 13 And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;
  • Col 3:11 : 11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.
  • Col 1:21 : 21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,
  • Ezek 36:31 : 31 And ye have remembered your ways that `are' evil, And your doings that `are' not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh; 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 2:15 : 15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
  • Gal 4:8-9 : 8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods, 9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
  • Deut 5:15 : 15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which `is' in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
  • Deut 9:7 : 7 `Remember -- do not forget -- that `with' which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;
  • Deut 15:15 : 15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.
  • Deut 16:12 : 12 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and hast observed and done these statutes.
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David speaketh unto the men who are standing by him, saying, `What is done to the man who smiteth this Philistine, and hath turned aside reproach from Israel? for who `is' this uncircumcised Philistine that he hath reproached the ranks of the living God?'
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged. 2 Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin, 26 On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner `of the beard', Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations `are' uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel `are' uncircumcised in heart!
  • Ezek 16:61-63 : 61 And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters -- Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant. 62 And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I `am' Jehovah. 63 So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Both the lion and the bear hath thy servant smitten, and this uncircumcised Philistine hath been as one of them, for he hath reproached the ranks of the living God.'

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  • Col 2:10-14
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    10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

    11 in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,

    12 being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with `him' through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

    13 And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

    14 having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

  • Eph 2:12-13
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    12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

    13 and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

  • Eph 2:9-10
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    9 not of works, that no one may boast;

    10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

  • Rom 2:24-29
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    24 for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

    25 For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

    26 If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

    27 and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art' a transgressor of law.

    28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

    29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

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    18 being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

    19 the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

  • 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • Col 3:10-11
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    10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

    11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.

  • 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

  • 15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

    2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

    3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

  • Gal 2:7-8
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    7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with `that' of the circumcision,

    8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

  • 15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

  • 7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

    13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

  • Rom 4:10-12
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    10 how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

    11 and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

    12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

  • 11 and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

  • 19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

  • 3 but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

  • Eph 3:5-6
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    5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

    6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

  • 2 ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

  • 10 who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

  • Col 1:21-22
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    21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

    22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

  • 30 yes, also of nations; since one `is' God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

  • 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

  • 8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

  • 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

  • 14 For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;

  • 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?