Circumcision

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Romans 2:25 NT

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19 NT

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

• Acts 10:45 NT

  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.

• Galatians 2:9 NT

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

• Genesis 34:14 OT

  and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

• Judges 14:3 OT

  Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she…

• Acts 10:28 NT

  He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

• Acts 11:3 NT

  saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

• Galatians 2:12 NT

  For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

• 1 Samuel 14:6 OT

  Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”

• 1 Samuel 17:26 OT

  David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

• Matthew 15:26 NT

  But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

• Matthew 15:27 NT

  But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

• Ephesians 2:15 NT

  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,

• 1 Samuel 18:25-27 OT

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. When his servants told…

• 2 Samuel 3:14 OT

  David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• Colossians 3:11 NT

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

• Acts 16:3 NT

  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.

• Galatians 2:3-5 NT

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

• Acts 15:24 NT

  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;

• Galatians 6:12 NT

  As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

• Titus 1:10 NT

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

• Galatians 3:3 NT

  Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

• Galatians 3:4 NT

  Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?