Bible Cross References
Circumcision
1 Corinthians 8:8
Food, however, will not improve our relation with God; we shall not lose anything if we do not eat, nor shall we gain anything if we do eat.
Romans 2:25-29
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If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised.
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If the Gentile, who is not circumcised, obeys the commands of the Law, will not God regard him as though he were circumcised?
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And so you Jews will be condemned by the Gentiles because you break the Law, even though you have it written down and are circumcised; but they obey the Law, even though they are not physically circumcised.
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After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing.
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Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God's Spirit, not of the written Law. Such a person receives praise from God, not from human beings.
Romans 3:30
God is one, and he will put the Jews right with himself on the basis of their faith, and will put the Gentiles right through their faith.
Galatians 5:6
For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Galatians 6:15
It does not matter at all whether or not one is circumcised; what does matter is being a new creature.
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1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, "Which does the LORD prefer: obedience or offerings and sacrifices? It is better to obey him than to sacrifice the best sheep to him.
Jeremiah 7:22
I gave your ancestors no commands about burnt offerings or any other kinds of sacrifices when I brought them out of Egypt.
Jeremiah 7:23
But I did command them to obey me, so that I would be their God and they would be my people. And I told them to live the way I had commanded them, so that things would go well for them.
Matthew 5:19
So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven.
John 15:14
And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
1 John 2:3
If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him.
1 John 2:4
If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.
1 John 3:22-24
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We receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
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What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.
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Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.
1 John 5:2
This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.
1 John 5:3
For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,
Revelation 22:14
Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.