What is circumcision?
According
to the scriptures there is physical circumcision by human hands
(which is nothing
according to the Word) but far more important is the circumcision
of the fleshy
body and the creation of a new body by Christ. (Colossians 2:11).
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Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision
is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
Galatians
5:6
For
in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
carries any weight—the only thing
that matters is faith working through love.
Galatians
6:15
For
neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for
anything; the only thing that matters
is a new creation!
Philippians
3:3
For
we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of
God, exult in Christ Jesus,
and do not rely on human credentials.
Colossians
2:11
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.
Acts
7:8
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.
Romans
2:25-29
25
For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if
you break the law,
your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26
Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous
requirements of the law,
will not his uncircumcision be regarded
as circumcision?
27
The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge
you to be the
transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision.
28
For a
person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision
something
that is outward in the flesh,
29
but someone
is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by
the Spirit
and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but
from God.
Romans
3:27-31
27 Where, then, is boasting? It
is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the
principle of faith! 28 For
we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart
from the works
of the law. 29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the
God of the
Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too! 30 Since God is
one, he will justify the circumcised
by faith and the uncircumcised
through faith. 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith?
Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
Romans
4:11
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.
Galatians
2:12
Until
certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles.
But when
they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because
he was afraid
of those who were pro-circumcision.