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 7:8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
• Col 2:11–12in whom you were also 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 Christ;
• Rom 4:9–11Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
• Gal 5:3–6Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Rom 3:30since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• 1 Cor 7:18–19Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
• Gen 17:11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
• Josh 5:2At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
• Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• Gal 6:12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
• Rom 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
• Rom 3:28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
• Josh 5:4This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.
• Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• John 7:22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
• Deut 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
• Exod 12:48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
• Jer 4:4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Rom 2:28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• Exod 4:25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
• Gen 34:15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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