21 Bible Verses about Necessity Of Circumcision

AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.

But some of those of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, rose and said, that it is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.

And I, brothers, if I preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased.

and they have been informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

What then is the preeminence of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

For before some came from James he eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself; fearing those of the circumcision;

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand,

Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them, and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision only, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which was in uncircumcision.

where there are not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, servant, freeman, but Christ is all things and in all.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.

But Titus who was with me, and was a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised;

Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to perform the whole law.