Acts 16:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Acts 15:37

But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.

Acts 15:40

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, making the churches stronger in the faith.

1 Corinthians 7:19

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

1 Corinthians 9:20

And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

Galatians 2:3

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

Galatians 2:8

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

Galatians 5:6

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

Philippians 2:22

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.