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1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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13 tagged words
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ἡhē<the>G3588 →
περιτομὴperitomēCircumcisionG4061 →
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ἐστινestinisG1510 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἡhē<the>G3588 →
ἀκροβυστίαakrobustiauncircumcisionG203 →
οὐδένoudenno [thing]G3762 →
ἐστινestinisG1510 →
ἀλλὰallabutG235 →
τήρησιςtērēsiskeepingG5084 →
ἐντολῶνentolōn[the] commandmentsG1785 →
θεοῦ.theouof God.G2316 →

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Galatians 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.Deuteronomy 30:16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.1 John 2:3–4By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.Romans 2:25–29Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.1 John 3:22–24and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.Genesis 34:24All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.Colossians 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.Proverbs 19:16He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Romans 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.1 John 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.1 Corinthians 8:8But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.Jeremiah 7:22–23For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

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