1st Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 19 Holy Bible
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
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Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.
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Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Circumcision is nothing. The Jews regarded it as everything; and to make this assertion at so early an epoch of Christian history, required all the courage of St. Paul, and proved his grand originality. He was the first to prove to the Jews that circumcision had become a thing intrinsically indifferent, which might, under some circumstances, be desirable (as in the case of Timothy), but could never be reckoned among essentials. And uncircumcision is nothing. The same sentence occurs three times in St. Paul, summing up, as it were, the liberty which it had cost him endless peril and anguish to achieve. Each time he concludes it with a weighty clause to show what is everything: "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God" (ver. 19); "... but faith which worketh by love" (Galatians 5:6); "... but a new creation" (Galatians 6:15). But the keeping of the commandments. So St. John says, "Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing.--Often those who regard some ceremony as unimportant magnify the very disregard of it into a necessary virtue. The Apostle carefully guards against that by expressing the nothingness of both circumcision and uncircumcision (Romans 2:25; Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15). The circumcision of Timothy, and the refusal to circumcise Titus by St. Paul himself, are illustrations at once of the application of the truth here enforced, and of the Apostle's scrupulous adherence to the principles of his own teaching. To have refused to circumcise Timothy would have attached some value to non-circumcision. To have circumcised Titus would have attached some value to circumcision. (See Acts 16:3; Galatians 2:3.)But the keeping of the commandments of God is everything, understood. The teaching here is, practically, "To obey is better than sacrifice." . . .
