Deuteronomy 10:16

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

In Context

15But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:41So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,

Deuteronomy 9:13And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

Deuteronomy 31:27For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

Jeremiah 4:4Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Romans 2:28The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

James 4:6But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →

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