Acts 16:3

WEB

³Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

KJV

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.

BSB

³Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

FBV

³Paul wanted Timothy to travel with him, so he circumcised him because the Jews in the area all knew that Timothy's father was Greek.

Extra References

Galatians 2:3

³But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

1 Corinthians 9:20

²⁰To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,^[+] that I might gain those who are under the law;

Galatians 5:6

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

Galatians 5:1-3

¹Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

²Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. ³Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

1 Corinthians 7:19

¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.

Acts 15:20

²⁰but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Galatians 2:8

⁸for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

Acts 15:40

⁴⁰but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

Acts 15:37

³⁷Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.