Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 10:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 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.
- 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.
- Leviticus 26:41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
- Colossians 2:11 In him 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,
- Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Jeremiah 4:14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
- James 4:6-7 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Cut off all your evil affections, Jer 4:4.
Cut off all your evil affections, Jer 4:4.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,…
Deu 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Ver. 16. Circumcise therefore.] Deus iubendo iuvat. Set about this work in God’s strength, and pray that the heaven may answer the earth. {Hos 2:21} For it is a work that must be done "without hands." {Col 2:11} Beg of God to thrust his holy hand into our bosom, and to pull off that filthy foreskin; urge him with his promise; {Deu 30:6} doubt not of his power: lex iubet, gratia iuvat, {a} &c.
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{a} August, in Exod., quaest. 55.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but seriously set…
Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but seriously set upon that substantial work which is signified and designed thereby: cleanse your hearts from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, which is fitly compared to the foreskin, which if not cut off, made persons profane, unclean, and odious in the sight of God. Compare Deu 30:6; Jer 4:4; 9:25; Rom 2:28,29; Col 2:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,.... Content not…
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,.... Content not yourselves with, nor put your confidence in outward circumcision of the flesh, but be concerned for the circumcision of the heart; for removing from that whatever is disagreeable to the Lord, even all carnality, sensuality, hypocrisy, and superfluity of naughtiness, and for having that put there which is well pleasing in his sight; and which though it is the work of God, and he only can do it and has promised it, yet such an exhortation is made to bring men to a sense of their need of it, and of the importance of it, and to show how agreeable it is to the Lord, and so to stir them up to seek unto him for it; see Deu 30:6.
and be no more stiffnecked; froward, obstinate, and disobedient, as they had been hitherto; Deu 9:6.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Circumcise - Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but…
Circumcise - Rest not in your bodily circumcision, but seriously set upon that substantial work which is signified thereby: cleanse your hearts from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, fitly compared to the foreskin, which if not cut off, made persons profane, unclean and odious in the sight of God.
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Verse 16. Circumcise - the foreskin of your heart] A plain proof from God himself that this precept pointed out spiritual things, and that it was not the cutting away a part of the flesh that was the object of the Divine commandment, but the purification of the soul, without which all forms and ceremonies are of no avail. Loving God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength, the heart being circumcised to enable them to do it, was, from the beginning, the end, design, and fulfilment of the whole law.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 10:16. Circumcise, therefore, your heart — Rest not…
Deu 10:16. Circumcise, therefore, your heart — Rest not in your bodily circumcision, or in any mere external observances or duties; but seriously set upon that substantial and most important circumcision of the heart and of the spirit which is signified by that of the flesh, and intended to be inculcated thereby: see Rom 2:28-29. Cleanse your hearts from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness; fitly compared to the foreskin, which, under the Jewish law, if not cut off, made persons profane, unclean, and odious in the sight of God.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On “circumcision” see Gen 17:10. This verse points to…
On “circumcision” see Gen 17:10. This verse points to the spiritual import of circumcision. Man is by nature “very far gone from original righteousness,” and in a state of enmity to God; by circumcision, as the sacrament of admission to the privileges of the chosen people, this opposition must be taken away ere man could enter into covenant with God. It was through the flesh that man first sinned; as it is also in the flesh, its functions, lusts, etc., that man’s rebellion against God chiefly manifests itself still. It was fitting therefore that the symbol which should denote the removal of this estrangement from God should be worked in the body. Moses then fitly follows up the command “to circumcise the heart,” with the warning “to be no more stiff-necked.” His meaning is that they should lay aside that obduracy and perverseness toward God for which he had been reproving them, which had led them into so many transgressions of the covenant and revolts from God, and which was especially the very contrary of that love and fear of God required by the first two of the Ten Commandments. The language associated with circumcision in the Bible distinguishes the use made of this rite in the Jewish religion from that found among certain pagan nations. Circumcision was practiced by some of them as a religious rite, designed (e. g.) to appease the deity of death who was supposed to delight in human suffering; but not by any, the Egyptians probably excepted, at all in the Jewish sense and meaning.
The grounds on which circumcision was imposed as essential by the Law are the same as those on which Baptism is required in the Gospel. The latter in the New Testament is strictly analogous to the former under the Old; compare Col 2:11-12.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Circumcise. The Hebrews esteem circumcision as a mark of…
Circumcise. The Hebrews esteem circumcision as a mark of their greatest glory. All who had it not were looked upon as profane. They call the ears, mind, and heart uncircumcised, when they would not hear, understand, or obey the law of God. St. Paul (Romans ii. 28) frequently inculcates this interior circumcision, to which Moses alludes in these his last exhortations, chap. xxx. 6. The people had not regularly practised circumcision in the desert. Moses takes care to raise their thoughts to something more spiritual; and declares, in clearer terms than he had hitherto done, the necessity of loving God. All must be banished from the heart which might resist this love. (Calmet) --- Vanity, blindness, luxury, must be retrenched. (Menochius)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart--Here he teaches…
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart--Here he teaches them the true and spiritual meaning of that rite, as was afterwards more strongly urged by Paul (Rom 2:25, Rom 2:29), and should be applied by us to our baptism, which is "not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God" [Pe1 3:21].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Circumcise… your heart — This verse suggests the…
16. Circumcise… your heart — This verse suggests the spiritual significance of the rite of circumcision. Comp. Rom_2:29 : “Circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. Circumcise the foreskin of your heart] The same…
16. Circumcise the foreskin of your heart] The same metaphor in Jer_4:4 (cp. Deu_9:25); whether it is original to the prophet or to D is impossible to determine. In view of the style of Jeremiah’s earlier discourses, in which abrupt and unrelated metaphors are frequently conjoined, and of the secondary character of these verses before us, the presumption is that the metaphor is here derived from Jeremiah. ‘Wohl bei Jeremias ursprünglich,’ Wellh. Comp. Hex. 193. Steuernagel states the converse opinion.
stiffnecked] See Deu_9:6 Sg. and 13 Pl.
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16–19. The form of address changes to Pl., and a qualification is made of the great statement just given. Though God has elected (for reasons of His own) to love Israel’s fathers and to choose their posterity after them out of all peoples to be His peculiar people, He is not one that regards persons, but as He takes the part of the helpless within Israel so He loves also the foreigner resident among them, and therefore Israel must love the foreign sojourner, having themselves been sojourners in Egypt. No doubt all this is more or less relevant to the main theme of the discourse, but it is outside it, and as its introduction is coincident with the change to the Pl. address, the passage must be considered as a later addition, or additions (for Deu_10:18-19 is still a further departure from Deu_10:16-17). The same idea, that Israel cannot count on God’s partiality for them if they continue to be stiffnecked, had been already put by Amos in a more striking form, Amo_3:2, you only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit on you all your iniquities. Cp. Joh_8:31-45; and Act_10:34; Rom_2:11; Gal_2:6, in which the argument of this passage is developed.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Circumcise . . . your heart.—“For circumcision is…
(16) Circumcise . . . your heart.—“For circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter” (Rom_2:29). The verse literally runs thus: Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and ye will harden your neck no more. It is the same line of thought as St. Paul’s (Gal_5:16) “Walk in the Spirit, and (then) ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
(17,18) A great God, a mighty, and a terrible . . . he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow.—“Behold (says Rashi) His might! And close beside His might thou mayest find His humility.” It is not otherwise in later passages of Scripture: “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They were, therefore, to lay aside all insensibility of…
They were, therefore, to lay aside all insensibility of heart and all obduracy, to acknowledge God"s supremacy, to imitate his beneficence, and to fear and worship him. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart. As circumcision was the symbol of purification and sign of consecration to God, so the Israelites are enjoined to realize in fact what that rite symbolized, viz. purity of heart and receptivity for the things of God. This is enforced by the consideration that Jehovah the alone God, the Almighty, is mighty and terrible without respect to persons, and at the same time is a righteous Judge, and the Protector of the helpless and destitute.
Heart circumcision.
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I HEART CIRCUMCISION IN ITS IMPORT.
1. Betokens the existence of natural impurity. The rite of circumcision, as the initiatory rite of the covenant, taught that man, in his natural, unpurified state, is unfit for fellowship with God. "In us, that is, in our flesh, dwells no good thing" (Joh_3:6; Rom_7:18) It was a symbol of the putting away of "the filth of the flesh a truth now signified in baptism (Col_2:11; 1Pe_3:21)
2. Illustrates the painful nature of the renunciation of fleshly lusts. The operation was sharp, painful, bloody. It vividly set forth at once the necessity of renouncing the lusts of the flesh, and the pain attendant on the act. We are called on to mortify our members which are upon the earth. (Col_3:5) The process is described as a crucifying of the flesh, with its affections and lusts. (Gal_5:24) The deepest form which this renunciation can assume is the renunciation of the principle of self-will in its entirety, the sharp excision of evil in its root.
3. Implies the grace of the covenant. The reception of God"s grace as exhibited in the covenant is the condition of the possibility of this renunciation. We achieve it, not in our own strength, but through the impartation of a new principle of life. Paul makes it a result of faith in the risen Christ. (Col_2:12) The circumcised heart marks the accepted and restored recipient of the grace of God a child of the spiritual covenant, one born again.
II HEART CIRCUMCISION IN ITS NECESSITY.
1. As distinguished from outward circumcision. The latter was valueless without the former. Being but a symbol, its sole worth lay in that which it represented. The true Jew was he who was one inwardly, whose circumcision was that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter". (Rom_2:28, Rom_2:29) The remark applies to baptism. It also is but a symbol, and without the grace which it exhibits, and the inward renewal which it betokens, it is a dead work, a valueless rite, leaving its subject as little a Christian as at first. So with all ceremonies.
2. As a positive qualification for Gods service. Pure obedience can flow only from a pure heart, a renewed will. It is not a fruit of the flesh. The flesh must he renounced, and a new and spiritual nature begotten in us before we can render it. What is needed is not reformation, but regeneration a new birth, a new creation, a new heart. J.O. (Joh_3:3; Rom_7:18-25 Rom_8:7; 2Co_5:17; Gal_5:16-25)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 "Because of this"
Therefore
"Because of this"
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circumcise the foreskin of your heart
The word "foreskin" refers to the fold of skin on a man's private parts that is removed during circumcision. Here Moses is referring to a spiritual circumcision. This means the people must remove the sin from their lives. (See: Metaphor)
God of gods
"the supreme God" or "the only true God"
Lord of masters
"the supreme Lord" or "the greatest Lord"
the fearsome one
"the one who causes people to fear"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:16 change your hearts (literally circumcise the foreskin of…
10:16 change your hearts (literally circumcise the foreskin of your hearts): This figure of speech encompasses both inward and outward conformity to the covenant (Gen 17:9-14; Rom 2:28-29).
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