Genesis 17:23 Cross References

Genesis 17:23

23: On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and every other male in his household and circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, exactly as God had told him.

Psalms 119:60

  1. I will hurry, without lingering, to obey your commands.

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."

Ecclesiastes 9:10

  1. Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Genesis 34:24

  1. So all the men agreed and were circumcised.

Genesis 18:19

  1. I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families to keep the way of the LORD and do what is right and just. Then I will do for him all that I have promised."

Proverbs 27:1

  1. Don't brag about tomorrow, since you don't know what the day will bring.

Joshua 5:2

  1. At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Use knives of flint to make the Israelites a circumcised people again."
  2. So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
  3. Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to bear arms when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.
  4. Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised.
  5. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to bear arms when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the LORD, and the LORD vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us--a land flowing with milk and honey.

Genesis 17:26

  1. Both were circumcised the same day,
  2. along with all the other men and boys of the household, whether they were born there or bought as servants.

Acts 16:3

  1. so Paul wanted him to join them on their journey. In deference to the Jews of the area, he arranged for Timothy to be circumcised before they left, for everyone knew that his father was a Greek.

Romans 2:25

  1. The Jewish ceremony of circumcision is worth something only if you obey God's law. But if you don't obey God's law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.
  2. And if the Gentiles obey God's law, won't God give them all the rights and honors of being his own people?
  3. In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God's law will be much better off than you Jews who are circumcised and know so much about God's law but don't obey it.
  4. For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the Jewish ceremony of circumcision.
  5. 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.

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.

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.

Galatians 6:15

  1. 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.

Romans 4:9

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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