Acts 15:1 Cross References - Riverside

¹ BUT certain men came down from Judaea and undertook to teach the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

²² Moses gave you circumcision — not that it is from Moses, but from our fathers — and on the Sabbath you circumcise a person.

¹⁴ We have heard him say that this Jesus, the Nazarene, will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

³ So they were sent on by the church and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles, which caused great joy to all the brethren.

⁵ Then some of the party of the Pharisees, who had become believers, rose and said, "We must circumcise them and tell them to keep the Law of Moses."

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to select men from themselves and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, men esteemed among the brethren.

²⁴ "Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, — men whom we did not authorize, —

²⁰ After hearing him, they gave glory to God and said to Paul, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the Law.

⁸ Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not charge up to him." ⁹ Does this blessedness come to the circumcision, or also to the uncircumcision? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness." ¹⁰ How was it credited, when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of faith that he had in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all who believe while uncircumcised, and righteousness should be credited to them; ¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is, of those who are not only circumcised, but who walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.

¹⁸ Was any one already circumcised when called? Let him not efface it. Was any one called when uncircumcised? Let him not become circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is all.

¹ THEN after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking along Titus.

³ But even Titus, who was with me and was a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised, ⁴ though it was suggested on account of false brethren who had been brought in, who had crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had been justly censured. ¹² For before certain persons came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews practiced the same hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was led off with them in their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you who are a Jew are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

¹ STAND firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ set us free, and do not wear any yoke of slavery. ² See, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you. ³ I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to carry out the whole Law. ⁴ You have put an end to Christ's work for you, you who are declared righteous by law; you have fallen away from grace.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹³ For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law, but they wish you to be circumcised in order to boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But let me never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me and I to the world. ¹⁵ For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. ¹⁶ All who walk by this rule — may peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God!

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the bad workmen, beware of the excision. ³ For we are the circumcision, we who worship in the Spirit of God and exult in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

¹¹ In him you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by laying aside your fleshly body in the circumcision of Christ. ¹² You were buried with him in baptism and raised again through faith in the inworking of God who raised him from the dead.

¹⁶ Let no one then judge you in the matter of food or drink or in regard to a festival or new moon or Sabbath.