Galatians 5:11
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11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?(A) In that case the offense(B) of the cross has been abolished.
Galatians 6:12
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12 Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh(A) are trying to compel you to be circumcised.(B) The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted(C) for the cross of Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:23
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Galatians 4:29
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29 At that time the son born according to the flesh(A) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.(B) It is the same now.
Galatians 2:3
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3 Yet not even Titus,(A) who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.(B)
1 Corinthians 15:30
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30 And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour?(A)
Acts 21:21
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21 They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses,(A) telling them not to circumcise their children(B) or live according to our customs.(C)
1 Peter 2:8-9
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8 and,
They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.(B)
9 But you are a chosen people,(C) a royal priesthood,(D) a holy nation,(E) God’s special possession,(F) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.(G)
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:8 Isaiah 8:14
Galatians 6:17
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17 From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks(A) of Jesus.
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
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23 Are they servants of Christ?(A) (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder,(B) been in prison more frequently,(C) been flogged more severely,(D) and been exposed to death again and again.(E) 24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes(F) minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods,(G) once I was pelted with stones,(H) three times I was shipwrecked,(I) I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews,(J) in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city,(K) in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.(L)
1 Corinthians 1:18
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Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness(A) to those who are perishing,(B) but to us who are being saved(C) it is the power of God.(D)
Romans 9:32-33
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32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A) 33 As it is written:
Footnotes
- Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
Acts 23:13-14
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13 More than forty men were involved in this plot. 14 They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.(A)
Acts 22:21-22
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21 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’ ”(A)
Paul the Roman Citizen
22 The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him!(B) He’s not fit to live!”(C)
Acts 21:28
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28 shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”(A)
Acts 16:3
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3 Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.(A)
Isaiah 8:14
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