Quotes about Circumcision
Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
- Joshua 5:4
Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
- Joshua 5:5
And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
- Joshua 5:8
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
- Jeremiah 4:4
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
- Jeremiah 9:25
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- Luke 1:59
When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
- Luke 2:21
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- John 7:22
If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
- John 7:23
Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
- Acts 7:8
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- Acts 15:1
But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:5