Deuteronomy 10:16 “Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.”

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

World English Bible

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

American Standard Version

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Geneva Bible 1599

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neckes no more.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

Bible in Basic English

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

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Cross references

“Circumcise”

Jeremiah 4:4 Deuteronomy 30:6 Leviticus 26:41 Colossians 2:11 Jeremiah 4:14 Romans 2:28

Jeremiah 4:4 · BSB

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil…

Deuteronomy 30:6 · BSB

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Leviticus 26:41 · BSB

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Colossians 2:11 · BSB

In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Romans 2:28 · BSB

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

“stiff-necked”

Deuteronomy 9:6 Deuteronomy 9:13 Deuteronomy 31:27 James 4:6 James 4:7

Deuteronomy 9:6 · BSB

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:13 · BSB

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 31:27 · BSB

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

James 4:6 · BSB

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:7 · BSB

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

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