Fondare 23 Risultati per: circumcision

• So he let him go. She said, 'Blood-bridegroom' then, with reference to the circumcision. (Exodus 4, 26)

• Achior, recognising all that the God of Israel had done, believed ardently in him and, accepting circumcision, was permanently incorporated into the House of Israel. (Judith 14, 10)

• disguised their circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant, submitting to gentile rule as willing slaves of impiety. (1 Maccabees 1, 15)

• with their babies hung round their necks, and the members of their household and those who had performed the circumcision were executed with them. (1 Maccabees 1, 61)

• Circumcise yourselves for Yahweh, apply circumcision to your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will leap out like a fire and burn with no one to quench it, in return for the wickedness of your deeds." ' (Jeremiah 4, 4)

• Moses ordered you to practise circumcision -- not that it began with him, it goes back to the patriarchs -- and you circumcise on the Sabbath. (John 7, 22)

• Then he made the covenant of circumcision with him: and so when his son Isaac was born Abraham circumcised him on the eighth day; similarly Isaac circumcised Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7, 8)

• Circumcision has its value if you keep the Law; but if you go on breaking the Law, you are no more circumcised than the uncircumcised. (Romans 2, 25)

• And if an uncircumcised man keeps the commands of the Law, will not his uncircumcised state count as circumcision? (Romans 2, 26)

• More, the man who, in his native uncircumcised state, keeps the Law, is a condemnation of you, who, by your concentration on the letter and on circumcision, actually break the Law. (Romans 2, 27)

• Being a Jew is not only having the outward appearance of a Jew, and circumcision is not only a visible physical operation. (Romans 2, 28)

• The real Jew is the one who is inwardly a Jew, and real circumcision is in the heart, a thing not of the letter but of the spirit. He may not be praised by any human being, but he will be praised by God. (Romans 2, 29)