47 occurrences

'Circumcised' in the Bible

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Verse ConceptsGesturesCeremoniesCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyProselytesThe Eternal CovenantBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGroups Of Slaves

Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people -- he has failed to carry out my requirement."

Verse ConceptsForeskinsBreaking The Covenant

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;

his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

Verse ConceptsAt The Same Time

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTLess Than A Year OldGod's Orders

They said to them, "We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."

Verse ConceptsSetting Out

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsBusiness At The GatewayConsent

But everyone's servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalServanthood, In SocietyServants Of PeopleCircumcision

"When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land -- but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

Verse ConceptsCommemoration

Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The Wilderness

He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Verse ConceptsHope And Healing

The Lord says, "Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsBodyGod, Impartiality OfTrue CircumcisionUncircumcised In Heart

That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedLiving In The WildernessCutting HairUncircumcised In Heart

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Verse ConceptsInfantsBoysCircumcision, physicalEight DaysFrom The WombLess Than A Year OldDedicationDevout mothersNativity of Jesus ChristJesus Birth

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Verse ConceptsInconsistencyCircumcision, physicalMoses, Significance OfAngry With ChristFulfilling The LawJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalThe Number TwelveSacramentsAbraham, God's Covenant WithLess Than A Year OldTwelve BeingsCircumcisionGifts Of GodGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsOther Gifts Of God

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalGenerosity, God'sBelieversPrejudiceAstonishmentThe Gentiles ConversionThe Holy Spirit Described As God's Gift

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalDisputes

Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Verse ConceptsCouncil of JerusalemAbraham, Family And DescendantsExclusivenessBarnabasHeresiesDenominationsMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionSalvation By Other Things

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalMissionary Work, Examples OfGoing TogetherIsrael HardenedJews

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

Verse ConceptsRighteousness imputed

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, spiritualPraiseSealsAbraham, God's Covenant WithAbraham, New Testament ReferencesReckoningRighteous By FaithRighteousness imputed

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Had Faithfootprints

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Verse ConceptsCertaintyPatriarchsGod's Promise To AbrahamSalvation For Israelvindication

Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

Verse ConceptsConsider Your Call To SalvationNecessity Of Circumcision

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalGreeksNecessity Of CircumcisionNo Compulsion

On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofPreaching, Importance OfSelf ConfidenceStewardshipEntrustingThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

Verse ConceptsPaul As An ApostleMinistry, Qualifications ForPeter, The ApostleThe Gospel To Jew And GentileGod's Work In UsMinistryempowerment

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceFellowship, Among BelieversApostles, Function In Early ChurchGrace, And Christian LifePaul, Apostle To GentilesPillarsCompanionshipMissionary WorkMetaphorical PillarsBlessings For The Right HandThe Gospel To Jew And Gentilepartnership

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

Verse ConceptsAbolitionSalvation Not By WorksValue

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Verse ConceptsNecessityCircumcisionUnder The Lawthe Law of moses

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessOutward AppearanceLiving For The MaterialNecessity Of CircumcisionOutward CompulsionSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionPersecutionThe Crosstrying

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

Verse ConceptsStrength, HumanNecessity Of CircumcisionThey Do Not Keep CommandsBoasting

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalDay 8ScholarsLess Than A Year OldTaking The Law To HeartJewszealots

In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

Verse ConceptsBeing Born AgainParticipation, In ChristRitualTypesNew Birth, Described AsForsaking SinGod Stripping PeopleLiving Not For The MaterialTrue CircumcisionRemoving People From Your Lifeefficiency

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