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Bible Verses About Circumcision
Find Bible verses about circumcision — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about circumcision?
The Bible addresses circumcision with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Galatians 5:6
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.”
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Romans 2:25
“For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.”
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Romans 2:29
“but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.”
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Romans 2:28
“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;”
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Romans 2:26
“If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?”
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Genesis 17:11
“You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.”
Galatians 5:2
“Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.”
Genesis 17:10
“This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.”
John 7:22
“Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.”
Romans 4:9
“Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.”
Colossians 2:11
“in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;”
Acts 11:2
“When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,”
Galatians 5:11
“But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.”
Leviticus 12:3
“In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.”
Genesis 34:22
“Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.”
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