Deuteronomy 10:16
Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and no longer stiffen your neck.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:41Therefore, I also will walk against them, and I will lead them into a hostile land, until their uncircumcised mind shall be ashamed. Then shall they pray on behalf of their impiety.
Deuteronomy 9:13And again, the Lord said to me: ‘I discern that this people is stiff-necked.
Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your contentiousness and your very stiff neck. Even while I am still living and entering with you, you have always acted with contention against the Lord. How much more so when I will be dead?
Jeremiah 4:4Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins from your hearts, O men of Judah, O inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise my indignation may burst forth and flare up like a fire. And then there will be no one who can extinguish it, because of the wickedness of your thoughts.
Romans 2:28For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh.
James 4:6But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
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 →