'Circumcision' in the Bible

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

And when Peter came to Jerusalem, those who kept the rule of circumcision had an argument with him,

Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.

Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,