Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Romans 2:25
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
Romans 2:26
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
Romans 2:27
And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.
Romans 2:28
The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
Genesis 17:10
And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.
Genesis 17:11
In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
Luke 2:21
And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.
1 Corinthians 7:18
If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Joshua 5:2
At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.
Galatians 5:2
See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
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Colossians 2:11
In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Colossians 2:12
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
Ephesians 2:11
For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
Galatians 6:15
For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
Galatians 5:6
Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
2 Corinthians 5:17
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Galatians 5:3
Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.
Galatians 6:12
Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.
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Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:4
Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
Jeremiah 9:25
See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;
Jeremiah 9:26
On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Leviticus 26:41
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
Ezekiel 44:7
To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
Ezekiel 44:9
For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.
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Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Romans 9:7
And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.
Romans 4:10
How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:
Romans 4:11
And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
Romans 4:12
And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
Revelation 3:9
See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.
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Romans 7:6
But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
Romans 3:1
How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
Galatians 6:13
Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.
John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 2:15
We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
Galatians 5:4
You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Ephesians 1:13
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
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1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
Matthew 25:21
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
Matthew 25:22
And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.
Matthew 25:23
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
2 Corinthians 10:18
For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.
1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
John 12:43
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
Luke 19:17
And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.
1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.
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Romans 2:17
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
Romans 2:18
And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,
Romans 2:19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
Romans 2:20
A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
Romans 2:22
You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?
Romans 2:23
You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Romans 2:24
For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
Romans 2:1
So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
Romans 3:9
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
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Galatians 6:16
And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
John 8:39
In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.
Galatians 3:7
Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8
And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
Galatians 3:9
So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.
Revelation 2:9
I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.
Isaiah 45:25
In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
Psalms 73:1
Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.
Romans 4:16
For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Isaiah 45:17
But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
John 8:37
I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.
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1 Peter 3:4
But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
Romans 7:22
In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
Matthew 23:25
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Psalms 51:6
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Matthew 6:2
When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
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Isaiah 48:2
For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
1 Samuel 4:3
And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.
1 Corinthians 10:4
And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
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Isaiah 48:1
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:12
But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
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Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
Romans 2:14
For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;
Romans 2:15
Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
Romans 2:16
In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:19
Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.
Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Romans 2:11
For one man is not different from another before God.
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Philippians 3:1
For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
Philippians 3:2
Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 3:30
If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
Galatians 2:20
I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
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Psalms 45:13
In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.
2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.
Luke 11:40
O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?
Ephesians 3:16
That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;
Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
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Matthew 8:11
And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:
Matthew 8:12
But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
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Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
Galatians 3:28
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
Revelation 7:4
And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.
Zechariah 12:1
The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.
Romans 4:13
For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 9:9
For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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Matthew 2:11
And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.
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John 3:5
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
John 3:6
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
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Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
1 Peter 5:4
And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
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