Acts 16:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ Paul wanted [Timothy] to accompany him, and taking him, he circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Paul desired Timothy to go with him [as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, all of whom knew that his father was a Greek.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Common English Bible

³ Paul wanted to take Timothy with him, so he circumcised him. This was because of the Jews who lived in those areas, for they all knew Timothy’s father was Greek.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Paul wanted this man to travel with him, and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile.

Acts 16:3 Cross References

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and [from] blood.

Acts 15:37

But Barnabas desired to take along with them John called Mark.

Acts 15:40

But Paul, choosing Silas, departed, being given over to the grace of God by the brothers.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God.

1 Corinthians 9:20

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, in order that I might win Jews; to those who are under law, as under law, in order that I might win those who are under law;

Galatians 2:3

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

Galatians 2:8

(for He who worked with Peter in [the] apostleship to the circumcised, worked also with me in [that for] the Gentiles),

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

Philippians 2:22

And you know his approved character, that as a child with his father he served as a slave for the gospel.