Bible Verses About Circumcision
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for circumcision, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,625 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Circumcision
1 Corinthians 7:19325 votes
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Jeremiah 4:4255 votes
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Galatians 5:2-11237 votes
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Genesis 21:4222 votes
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Romans 2:25-29216 votes
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Galatians 6:15209 votes
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Genesis 17:10-14187 votes
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.
Galatians 5:6167 votes
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Romans 4:11165 votes
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:
Philippians 3:3162 votes
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Galatians 2:3158 votes
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Acts 15:1-41157 votes
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Luke 2:21155 votes
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Deuteronomy 10:16153 votes
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Romans 2:28139 votes
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Leviticus 12:3138 votes
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12125 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:18122 votes
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Romans 2:29114 votes
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.
Ephesians 2:11113 votes
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Deuteronomy 30:6106 votes
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Colossians 2:11106 votes
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:
Genesis 17:1498 votes
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:1-2792 votes
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Acts 15:5-2990 votes
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
What does the Bible say about circumcision?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:19 on the subject of circumcision. Across 7,625 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 4:4, Galatians 5:2-11, Genesis 21:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.