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• Circumcision PartyBible

  The circumcision party is a New Testament expression for believers of Jewish origin who had been circumcised. It is used especially of those among them who required Gentile believers to be circumcised and to keep the Law of Moses.

• Circumcision of the HeartBible

  Circumcision of the heart is a biblical metaphor, drawn from physical circumcision, for the inward transformation in which a person casts off a heart hardened against God and is made new.

• Philippians 3:3Bible Verses

  In this verse Paul warns against those who insist on circumcision and declares that believers who worship by the Spirit, glory in Christ, and put no confidence in the flesh are the true circumcision. It is frequently cited in discussions of the law and justification and of the relationship between the church and Israel.

• Romans 4Bible

  Romans 4 argues that Abraham was justified not by works or by circumcision but by believing God, and that the way of being made righteous by faith is therefore open to both the circumcised and the uncircumcised.

• Philippians 3Bible

  Philippians 3 is the chapter in which Paul warns against those who insist on circumcision and, in place of the righteousness of the law, speaks of the knowledge of Christ and the righteousness that comes through faith. It closes with a picture of the life of faith as pressing toward the mark and with the hope of heavenly citizenship.

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Verses in the King James Version 34, showing 6

• Exodus 4:26

  So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

• John 7:22

  Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

• John 7:23

  If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 10:45Explained

  And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

• Acts 11:2

  And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

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