Genesis 17:10

God commanded that every male be circumcised as the covenant sign. Circumcision became the mark of belonging to God's covenant people.

Cross-references · 24

• Acts 7:8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
• 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.
• Rom 4:9–11Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
• Gal 5:3–6Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
• Rom 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• 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.
• Gen 17:11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
• Josh 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
• 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—
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
• 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 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
• Rom 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
• Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
• Rom 3:28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
• Josh 5:4Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
• Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• 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.)
• Deut 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
• Exod 12:48If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
• 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.”
• Rom 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Exod 4:25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
• Gen 34:15We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

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