KJV King James Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
WEB World English Bible
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
ASV American Standard Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 10
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD’S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is] this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.Deuteronomy 30:6And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.Leviticus 26:41And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:Colossians 2:11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:Romans 2:28-29For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:Deuteronomy 9:6Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people.Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?Deuteronomy 9:13Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:James 4:6-7But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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