Acts 15:20
15:20 but that we should write them a letter
telling them to abstain
from things defiled
by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled
and from blood.
Acts 15:1
The Jerusalem Council
15:1 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Colossians 1:19-20
1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Galatians 2:3
2:3 Yet
not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.
Galatians 2:8
2:8 (for he who empowered
Peter for his apostleship
to the circumcised
also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
Galatians 5:1-3
Freedom of the Believer
5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
5:2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!
5:3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Galatians 5:6
5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.