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Want to know what the Bible says about Circumcision? Here are 123 Bible verses about Circumcision from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Jeremiah 9:25-26 NIV
25 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.
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Romans 2:25 NIV
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.
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John 7:23 NIV
Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?
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Luke 1:59 NIV
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,
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Exodus 12:48 NIV
“A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.
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Galatians 6:13 NIV
Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh.
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Galatians 6:12 NIV
Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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Colossians 3:11 NIV
Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
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Exodus 4:24-26 NIV
24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. 26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
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Philippians 3:5 NIV
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
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Jeremiah 6:10 NIV
To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen to me?
Their ears are closed
    so they cannot hear.
The word of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.
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John 7:22 NIV
Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.
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Acts 7:8 NIV
Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
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Titus 1:10 NIV
For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
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Genesis 17:13 NIV
Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
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Galatians 5:3 NIV
Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
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Romans 3:30 NIV
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
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Acts 15:1 NIV
Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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Galatians 5:2 NIV
Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
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Acts 10:45 NIV
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.
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