Genesis 17:10

New Living Translation

This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17:23

On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him.

Genesis 17:27

along with all the other men and boys of the household, whether they were born there or bought as servants. All were circumcised with him.

Genesis 21:4

Eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded.

Genesis 34:15

But here is a solution. If every man among you will be circumcised like we are,

Genesis 34:22

But they will consider staying here and becoming one people with us only if all of our men are circumcised, just as they are.

Exodus 12:48

“If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.

Exodus 4:25

But Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched his feet with the foreskin and said, “Now you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Jeremiah 4:4

O people of Judah and Jerusalem, surrender your pride and power. Change your hearts before the Lord, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.

John 7:22

But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.)

Acts 7:8

“God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day. And the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation.

Romans 2:28

For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision.

Romans 3:25

For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

Romans 3:28

So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

Romans 3:30

There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

Galatians 3:28

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 6:12

Those who are trying to force you to be circumcised want to look good to others. They don’t want to be persecuted for teaching that the cross of Christ alone can save.

Ephesians 2:11

Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, change your hearts and stop being stubborn.

Deuteronomy 30:6

“The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!

Philippians 3:3

For we who worship by the Spirit of God are the ones who are truly circumcised. We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us. We put no confidence in human effort,

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.”

Joshua 5:4

Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.