1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God's commandments is everything.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
In Context
20Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, when he was called, in that let him continue.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Whoever therefore breaks one of these least commandments and teaches others to break them, will be called the least in the Kingdom of the Heavens; but whoever practises them and teaches them, he will be acknowledged as great in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Romans 2:25Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing.
1 Corinthians 8:8It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.
Colossians 3:11In that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is everything and is in all of us.
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 →