REFERENCE

CIRCUMCISION

Genesis 17:10-12

[17:10] This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. [17:11] And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. [17:12] And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

Genesis 17:23-25

[17:23] Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. [17:24] And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. [17:25] And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 21:4

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 34:24

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised , all that went out of the gate of his city.

Exodus 2:22, 4:20, 24-26

[2:22] And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. [4:20] And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. [4:24] And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. [4:25] Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. [4:26] So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. (This may have been Gershom)

Joshua 5:4

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt , that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Exodus 4:24-26

[4:24] And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. [4:25] Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. [4:26] So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Luke 1:59-60

[1:59] And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. [1:60] And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

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.

Romans 2:25

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Romans 2:28-29

[2:28] For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:, [2:29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart , in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 3:30

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Romans 4:11-12

[4:11] And he received the sign of circumcision , a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: [4:12] And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

I Corinthians 7:19

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

Galatians 2:7

But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; (Paul was sent to the uncircumcised, Gentiles, and Peter was sent to the circumcised, Jews.)

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Philippians 3:5

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; (Paul)

Colossians 2:11

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ :