Acts 15:1 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹ In the meantime, some, who came down from Judea, taught the brethren, Except you be circumcised, according to the manner of Moses, you can not be saved.

¹ Stand fast, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has freed us, and be not again held fast in the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ And I testify, moreover, to every circumcised person, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ You are loosed from Christ, who are justified by the law; you have fallen from favor.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith, which works by love.

¹³ For not even do the circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But far be it from me to 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 in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but a new creature. ¹⁶ Now as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

²² Moses instituted circumcision among you, (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs,) and you circumcise on the Sabbath.

¹⁴ for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change its customs, which Moses delivered to us.

³ They, therefore, being brought forward on their journey, by the congregation, went through Phenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles; and they occasioned great joy to all the brethren.

⁵ But some of the sect of the Pharisees that believed, rose up and said, that it was necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.

²² Then it seemed good to the Apostles and elders, and all the congregation, to send to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, chosen men from among themselves, namely, Judas, surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, men of principal account among the brethren;

²⁴ Forasmuch as we have been informed that, some going out from among us, to whom we gave no commission, have troubled you with discourses, unsettling your minds, saying, that you must be circumcised, and keep the law:

²⁰ And when they heard it, they glorified God, and said to him, Brother, you see how many myriads of believing Jews there are: and they are all zealous for the law.

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not count sin." ⁹ Does this blessedness come, then, on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision, also? for we affirm that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰ How, then, was it counted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the mark of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had whilst uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all uncircumcised believers, that righteousness might be counted even to them. ¹² And a father to the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had whilst in uncircumcision.

¹⁸ Has any circumcised one been called? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any one 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.

¹ Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas; taking Titus with me also.

³ However, neither Titus, who was with me, though a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised, ⁴ even on account of the false brethren secretly introduced; (who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have by Jesus Christ, that they might bring us into bondage;)

¹¹ Moreover, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed. ¹² For, before certain persons came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, being afraid of them of the circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also dissembled with them, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all-If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?

² Beware of the snarlers, beware of evil workers, beware of the excision; ³ for we are the circumcision, who worship God in spirit, who glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,

⁸ Beware lest any one make a prey of you through an empty and deceitful philosophy, -according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹¹ By whom, also, you have been circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with him in immersion, by which also you have been raised with him, through the belief of the strong working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹⁶ Let no one, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths;