1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
In Context
20Let each one abide in the same calling in which he is called.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Therefore if any one may break one of the least of these commandments, and so teach the people, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whosoever may do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
Romans 2:25For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
1 Corinthians 8:8But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine love.
Colossians 3:11where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all things, and in all.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:18-25
Christian Contentment. ( a. d. 57.) 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for… Read the whole commentary →