Acts 15:1

Men from Judea taught that Gentiles must be circumcised under Moses to be saved. This false teaching threatened the gospel of salvation by grace alone.

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• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Acts 15:5But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
• Col 2:8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
• Lev 12:3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
• 1 Cor 7:18–19Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
• Gal 2:11–14When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.
• Gal 5:1–4It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Gal 6:13–16For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
• Rom 4:8–12Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
• Acts 15:24It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
• Gal 2:3–4Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
• Gen 17:10–27This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
• Phil 3:2–3Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
• Col 2:11–12In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
• Acts 15:3Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
• John 7:22But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
• Gal 2:1Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
• Acts 6:14For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
• Acts 21:20When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
• Col 2:16Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
• Acts 15:22Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,

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