Deuteronomy 10:16

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

17Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, a who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:41Therefore I also will walk them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins.

Deuteronomy 9:13And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:

Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck, While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

Jeremiah 4:4Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it: because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Romans 2:28For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:

James 4:6But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth 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 →

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