Acts 21:21 Cross References - MLV

²¹ and they have been instructed concerning you, that you are teaching apostasy from Moses to all the Jews among the nations, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

¹³ And false witnesses stood up, who said, This man is not ceasing to speak blasphemous declarations against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will be tearing-down this place and will be changing the customs which Moses gave to us.

¹⁹ Hence, I am deciding not to trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles; ²⁰ but to inform them by letter: to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses has those who preach him in every city, from ancient generations, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.

³ This one, Paul wished to go forth together with him, and he took Timothy and circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places; for they all knew that his father was Greek.

²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This one is the man who is teaching all people everywhere, against the Jewish people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and has desecrated this holy place.

¹⁷ Now after three days Paul happened to call together those who are the foremost of the Jews and when they came together, he said to them, Brethren, I have done nothing adverse to the Jewish people or the customs of our forefathers. I, a prisoner from Jerusalem, was given up into the hands of the Romans.

¹ But receive the one who is weak in the faith, yet not for the judging of his reasonings. ² One has faith to eat all things, but the one who is weak eats herbs. ³ Do not let the one who eats, scorn the one who does not eat; and do not let the one who does not eat, judge the one who eats; for God himself has received him. ⁴ Who are you who is judging another’s domestic servant? He stands or falls to his own lord. Now, he will be made to stand up; for it is possible for God to stand him up. ⁵ One indeed is judging a day beside another day; but one is judging each day the same; let each one be fully assured in his own mind. ⁶ He who is mindful of the day, is mindful of it to the Lord; and he who is not mindful of the day, is not mindful of it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives-thanks to God. And he who does not eat, he does not eat to the Lord, and gives-thanks to God.

¹⁸ Was anyone called being circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

¹⁹ For although being free from all, I enslaved myself to all, in order that I might gain all the more. ²⁰ And I became like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I might gain Jews. I became like those under the law to those who are under the law, in order that I might gain those who are under the law. ²¹ I became like the lawless to those who are lawless, (not being lawless to God, but lawful to Christ), in order that I might gain the lawless.

¹ Therefore stand-firm in the freedom in which Christ made us free, and do not be held again in a yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you are circumcised, Christ will be profiting you nothing. ³ Now, I am testifying again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to practice the whole law. ⁴ You have been done-away-with, cut off from the Christ, you who are made righteous by the law; you have fallen from the grace of God. \ulnone\nosupersub ⁵ For we are waiting for the hope of righteousness in a Spirit from faith. ⁶ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love.

¹² As many as wish to have a good countenance in the flesh, these are urging you to be circumcised; only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ. ¹³ For not even those who have been circumcised themselves observe the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. ¹⁵ For neither anything circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails in Christ Jesus, but a new creation.