Colossians 2:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Whom

Philippians 3:3

Without

In putting

Colossians 3:8

Romans 6:6

Ephesians 4:22

General references

Leviticus 12:3

Romans 2:26

Romans 3:30

Bible References

Whom

Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

Without

We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.

But the Most High dwells not in places made with hands; as says the prophet,

The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand;

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

In putting

But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

General references

And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

since indeed it is one God who shall justify the circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.