Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
Deuteronomy 9:13The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
Romans 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but 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 →