Colossians 2:11

In Christ believers received a spiritual circumcision that strips away the sinful nature. Christ accomplishes inwardly what physical circumcision only pictured.

Cross-references · 20

• Rom 2:29No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Rom 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
• Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
• Col 3:8–9But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• Deut 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
• Heb 9:24For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
• Eph 2:10–18For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
• Jer 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
• Heb 9:11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• Acts 17:24The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
• Acts 7:48However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
• Mark 14:58“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
• Luke 2:21When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

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