Joshua 5:2 Cross References

Joshua 5:2

2: At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Use knives of flint to make the Israelites a circumcised people again."

But Zipporah, his wife, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She threw the foreskin at Moses' feet and said, "What a blood-smeared bridegroom you are to me!"

"The LORD your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!

This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised;
the flesh of his foreskin must be cut off. This will be a sign that you and they have accepted this covenant.
Every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family, but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased.
All must be circumcised. Your bodies will thus bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.
Anyone who refuses to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for violating the covenant."

When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure--the cutting away of your sinful nature.

The circumcision ceremony was a sign that Abraham already had faith and that God had already accepted him and declared him to be righteous--even before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who have faith but have not been circumcised. They are made right with God by faith.

No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not a cutting of the body but a change of heart produced by God's Spirit. Whoever has that kind of change seeks praise from God, not from people.

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