Deuteronomy 10:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.”
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“Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 10:16 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 9:6Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:13The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- 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!
- 2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
- 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.”
- Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Romans 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
- Colossians 2:11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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