Bible Verses About Circumcision

Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a b’rit-milah and have Torah written out but violate it!

For the real Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not only external and physical.

On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.

Now is this blessing for the circumcised only? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say that Avraham’s trust was credited to his account as righteousness;

but what state was he in when it was so credited — circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!

In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him,

indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham; rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”

In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.

For this is what the promise said: “At the time set, I will come; and Sarah will have a son.”

And even more to the point is the case of Rivkah; for both her children were conceived in a single act with Yitz’chak, our father;

and before they were born, before they had done anything at all, either good or bad (so that God’s plan might remain a matter of his sovereign choice, not dependent on what they did, but on God, who does the calling),

it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”

This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”

Was someone already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not try to remove the marks of his circumcision. Was someone uncircumcised when he was called? He shouldn’t undergo b’rit-milah.

Being circumcised means nothing, and being uncircumcised means nothing; what does mean something is keeping God’s commandments.

But they didn’t force my Gentile companion Titus to undergo b’rit-milah.

Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brothers had been sneaked in — they came in surreptitiously to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Yeshua, so that they might enslave us.

Not even for a minute did we give in to them, so that the truth of the Good News might be preserved for you.

Mark my words — I, Sha’ul, tell you that if you undergo b’rit-milah the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all!

Again, I warn you: any man who undergoes b’rit-milah is obligated to observe the entire Torah!

You who are trying to be declared righteous by God through legalism have severed yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God’s grace!

For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works in us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled.

When we are united with the Messiah Yeshua, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.

You were running the race well; who has stopped you from following the truth?