Genesis 17:11-12
11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a asign of the covenant between me and you. 12He who is beight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or cbought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,Deuteronomy 30:6
6And dthe Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, eso that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.Luke 1:59
59And fon the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,Luke 2:21
21And gat the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, hhe was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.John 7:22-23
22 iMoses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but jfrom the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, kare you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?Romans 3:19
19Now we know that whatever lthe law says it speaks to those who are under the law, mso that every mouth may be stopped, and nthe whole world may be held accountable to God.Romans 4:11-12
11 oHe received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was pto make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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