Acts 15:1 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Then some men came down from Judea and started teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved”.

²² Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

¹⁴ for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Natsorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

³ So being sent on their way by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brothers.

⁵ But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses”.

²² Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole congregation, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas (the one called Barsabas) and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law —to whom we gave no such authorization—

²⁰ But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not impute sin!” ⁹ Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? Since we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness, ¹⁰ how then was it credited? After he was circumcised or while still uncircumcised? Not circumcised, but uncircumcised! ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness from his faith while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, in order that this righteousness may be credited to them also, ¹² and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised.

¹⁸ Was anyone already circumcised when called? Let him not reverse it. Was anyone uncircumcised when called? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God’s commandments.

¹ Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well.

³ However, not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, for being a Greek. ⁴ This came up because of the false brothers who were smuggled in (who stole in to spy out our freedom, that we have in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery),

¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision party. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews played the hypocrite with him as well, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ So when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all: “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

¹ Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not be burdened again with a yoke of slavery. ² Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you get circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ Further, I testify again to every man who gets circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law. ⁴ You who are ‘being justified’ by law have been alienated from the Christ; you have fallen away from the grace.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. ¹⁶ Now as for those who conform to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

² Watch out for the ‘dogs’, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for the mutilation! ³ For it is we who are the circumcision, the ones who worship by God’s Spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in flesh

⁸ Be careful that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.

¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised by the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, not with a circumcision done by hands but with the circumcision of the Christ, ¹² having been buried with Him in the baptism. In Him you were also raised together through your faith in the productive power of the God who raised Him from among the dead.

¹⁶ So don’t let anyone judge you about food or drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or Sabbaths,