Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.

17For Jehovah your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward;

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:41so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

Deuteronomy 9:13And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 31:27for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death!

Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Romans 2:28For he is not a Jew who [is] one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;

James 4:6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

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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