Bible Verses About Circumcision

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

Neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children. But, “In Isaac will your seed be called.”

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

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

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Messiah Yeshua, that they might bring us into bondage;

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Messiah will profit you nothing.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

You are alienated from Messiah, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?