1 Corinthians 7:19
Good News Translation
For whether or not a man is circumcised means nothing; what matters is to obey God's commandments.

New Revised Standard Version
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but obeying the commandments of God is everything.

Contemporary English Version
Being circumcised or uncircumcised isn't really what matters. The important thing is to obey God's commands.

New American Bible
Circumcision means nothing, and uncircumcision means nothing; what matters is keeping God’s commandments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

Circumcision.

1 Corinthians 8:8 But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.

Romans 2:25-29 Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. . . .

Romans 3:30 For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

but.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

Jeremiah 7:22,23 For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices. . . .

Matthew 5:19 He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

1 John 2:3,4 And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. . . .

1 John 3:22-24 And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. . . .

1 John 5:2,3 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments. . . .

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Context
Live Your Calling
18Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God. 20Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.…
Cross References
Romans 2:25
Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26
If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Romans 2:27
And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

1 Corinthians 7:18
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