Acts 15:1 Cross References

Acts 15:1

1: While Paul and Barnabas were at Antioch of Syria, some men from Judea arrived and began to teach the Christians: "Unless you keep the ancient Jewish custom of circumcision taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."

Galatians 5:6

  1. For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.

Acts 15:5

  1. But then some of the men who had been Pharisees before their conversion stood up and declared that all Gentile converts must be circumcised and be required to follow the law of Moses.

Galatians 5:1

  1. So Christ has really set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.
  2. Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ cannot help you.
  3. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey all of the regulations in the whole law of Moses.
  4. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.

Leviticus 12:3

  1. On the eighth day, the boy must be circumcised.

Galatians 2:11

  1. But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him publicly, speaking strongly against what he was doing, for it was very wrong.
  2. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians, who don't bother with circumcision. But afterward, when some Jewish friends of James came, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles anymore because he was afraid of what these legalists would say.
  3. Then the other Jewish Christians followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their hypocrisy.
  4. When I saw that they were not following the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter in front of all the others, "Since you, a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are you trying to make these Gentiles obey the Jewish laws you abandoned?

Acts 15:24

  1. "We understand that some men from here have troubled you and upset you with their teaching, but they had no such instructions from us.

Galatians 6:13

  1. And even those who advocate circumcision don't really keep the whole law. They only want you to be circumcised so they can brag about it and claim you as their disciples.
  2. As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world died long ago, and the world's interest in me is also long dead.
  3. It doesn't make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people.
  4. May God's mercy and peace be upon all those who live by this principle. They are the new people of God.

1 Corinthians 7:18

  1. For instance, a man who was circumcised before he became a believer should not try to reverse it. And the man who was uncircumcised when he became a believer should not be circumcised now.
  2. For it makes no difference whether or not a man has been circumcised. The important thing is to keep God's commandments.

Colossians 2:8

  1. Don't let anyone lead you astray with empty philosophy and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the evil powers of this world, and not from Christ.

Genesis 17:10

  1. This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised;
  2. the flesh of his foreskin must be cut off. This will be a sign that you and they have accepted this covenant.
  3. 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.
  4. All must be circumcised. Your bodies will thus bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.
  5. Anyone who refuses to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for violating the covenant."

Colossians 2:11

  1. 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.
  2. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to a new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.

Romans 4:8

  1. Yes, what joy for those whose sin is no longer counted against them by the Lord."
  2. Now then, is this blessing only for the Jews, or is it for Gentiles, too? Well, what about Abraham? We have been saying he was declared righteous by God because of his faith.
  3. But how did his faith help him? Was he declared righteous only after he had been circumcised, or was it before he was circumcised? The answer is that God accepted him first, and then he was circumcised later!
  4. 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.
  5. And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumcised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Acts 6:14

  1. We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the Temple and change the customs Moses handed down to us."

Galatians 2:1

  1. Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along, too.

Philippians 3:2

  1. Watch out for those dogs, those wicked men and their evil deeds, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.
  2. For we who worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who are truly circumcised. We put no confidence in human effort. Instead, we boast about what Christ Jesus has done for us.

John 7:22

  1. But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses' law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision is older than the law of Moses; it goes back to Abraham.)

Galatians 2:3

  1. And they did agree. They did not even demand that my companion Titus be circumcised, though he was a Gentile.
  2. Even that question wouldn't have come up except for some so-called Christians there--false ones, really--who came to spy on us and see our freedom in Christ Jesus. They wanted to force us, like slaves, to follow their Jewish regulations.

Acts 21:20

  1. After hearing this, they praised God. But then they said, "You know, dear brother, how many thousands of Jews have also believed, and they all take the law of Moses very seriously.

Acts 15:3

  1. The church sent the delegates to Jerusalem, and they stopped along the way in Phoenicia and Samaria to visit the believers. They told them--much to everyone's joy--that the Gentiles, too, were being converted.

Acts 15:22

  1. Then the apostles and elders and the whole church in Jerusalem chose delegates, and they sent them to Antioch of Syria with Paul and Barnabas to report on this decision. The men chosen were two of the church leaders--Judas (also called Barsabbas) and Silas.

Colossians 2:16

  1. So don't let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new-moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
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