uncircumcision


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uncircumcision

(ˌʌnsɜːkəmˈsɪʒən)
n
(Judaism) chiefly New Testament the state of being uncircumcised

un•cir•cum•ci•sion

(ˌʌn sɜr kəmˈsɪʒ ən)

n.
1. the condition of being uncircumcised.
2. people who are not circumcised.
[1520–30]
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26 [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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5:17) and "Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything
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Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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The second occurrence is in the epistle to the Galatians, where he exclaims, "For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything
Reconciliation and the new identity in Christ: pneumatological perspectives of Christian mission in its third millennium
It would have been better for you to have circumcised or to have been possessed by demons, if I might say that which is ridiculous, than in uncircumcision and in health to be in a state of such wickedness and ungodliness.
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