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 Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Acts 15:5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
• Col 2:8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
• Lev 12:3And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
• 1 Cor 7:18–19Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
• Gal 2:11–14But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
• Gal 5:1–4Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• Gal 6:13–16For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
• Rom 4:8–12Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
• Acts 15:24Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
• Gal 2:3–4But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
• Gen 17:10–27This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
• Phil 3:2–3Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
• Col 2:11–12In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• Acts 15:3And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
• John 7:22Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
• Gal 2:1Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
• Acts 6:14For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
• Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
• Col 2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
• Acts 15:22Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

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