CIRCUMCISION

Passages on this topic · 114

• Genesis 17:4

  “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

• Genesis 17:5

  Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

• Genesis 17:6

  I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

• Genesis 17:7

  I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

• Genesis 17:8

  I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

• Genesis 17:9

  God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

• Genesis 17:10

  This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

• Genesis 17:11

  You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

• Genesis 17:12

  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 17:14

  The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 17:23

  Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:25

  Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:26

  In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

• Genesis 17:27

  All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 21:3

  Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

• Genesis 34:24

  All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

• Exodus 4:24

  On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

• Exodus 4:25

  Then 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.”

• Exodus 6:12

  Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”

• Exodus 12:48

  When 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.

• Leviticus 12:3

  In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

• Deuteronomy 30:6

  Yahweh 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.

• Joshua 5:2

  At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”

• Joshua 5:3

  Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

• Joshua 5:4

  This 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.

• Joshua 5:5

  For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

• Joshua 5:6

  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Joshua 5:7

  Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

• Joshua 5:8

  When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

• Joshua 5:9

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt off of you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise 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.

• Jeremiah 6:10

  To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Luke 1:59

  On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

• Luke 2:21

  When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

• John 7:22

  Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

• John 7:23

  If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

• Acts 7:8

  He 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.

• Acts 10:45

  They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

• Acts 11:2

  When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

• Acts 15:1

  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

• Acts 15:5

  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 15:6

  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

• Acts 15:7

  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 15:9

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Acts 15:10

  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

• Acts 15:11

  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

• Acts 15:12

  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

• Acts 15:13

  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

• Acts 15:15

  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Acts 15:18

  All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’

• Acts 15:19

  “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Acts 16:3

  Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

• Romans 2:25

  For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

• Romans 2:26

  If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

• Romans 2:27

  Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

• Romans 2:28

  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

• Romans 2:29

  but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

• Romans 3:1

  Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

• Romans 3:30

  since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

• Romans 4:9

  Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

• Romans 4:10

  How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

• Romans 4:11

  He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

• Romans 9:7

  Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

• Romans 9:8

  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

• Romans 9:9

  For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Romans 9:10

  Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

• Romans 9:11

  For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

• Romans 9:12

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Romans 15:8

  Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

• 1 Corinthians 7:18

  Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19

  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

• Galatians 2:3

  But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

• Galatians 2:4

  This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

• Galatians 2:9

  and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

• Galatians 5:2

  Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

• Galatians 5:3

  Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

• Galatians 5:4

  You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

• Galatians 5:5

  For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

• Galatians 5:6

  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

• Galatians 5:7

  You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

• Galatians 5:8

  This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

• Galatians 5:9

  A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

• Galatians 5:10

  I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

• Galatians 5:11

  But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

• Galatians 6:12

  As 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.

• Galatians 6:13

  For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

• Ephesians 2:11

  Therefore 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);

• Ephesians 2:15

  having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

• Philippians 3:3

  For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

• Philippians 3:5

  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

• Colossians 2:11

  in 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;

• Colossians 3:11

  where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

• Colossians 4:11

  and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

• Titus 1:10

  For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,