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Acts 16:3
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Acts 16:3
3Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
3Him would Paul haue to go forth with him, and tooke, and circumcised him, because of the Iewes which were in those quarters: for they knew all, that his father was a Greeke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 16:3
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
circumcised
Having the foreskin cut away; also used in Scripture of the covenant sign and figurative inward separation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Members of the Jewish people; Hebrews or Israelites identified as Jews.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fourth parts; also districts, regions, sides, directions, or appointed places.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A Greek person or one belonging to the Greek-speaking world; also the Greek language.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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Open the full verse study20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
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Open the full verse study6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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Open the full verse study1STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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Open the full verse study19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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Open the full verse study20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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Open the full verse study40And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
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Open the full verse study8(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
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Open the full verse study37And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
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