◄ Deuteronomy 10:16 ►
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Good News Translation
So then, from now on be obedient to the LORD and stop being stubborn.

New Revised Standard Version
Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

Contemporary English Version
Remember your agreement with the LORD and stop being so stubborn.

New American Bible
Circumcise therefore the foreskins of your hearts, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Circumcise

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Leviticus 26:41 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins.

Jeremiah 4:4,14 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts. . . .

Romans 2:28,29 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. . . .

Colossians 2:11 In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of Christ.

stiff-necked

Deuteronomy 9:6,13 Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people. . . .

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

James 4:6,7 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. . . .

Context
A Call to Obedience
…15And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved. 16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.17Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:11
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Leviticus 26:41
Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins.

Deuteronomy 9:6
Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people.

Deuteronomy 9:13
And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:

Deuteronomy 30:6
The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Jeremiah 4:4
Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Ezekiel 44:7
In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.

Deuteronomy 10:15
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