1 Corinthians 7:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised Is any called in uncircumcision? Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Not become uncircumcised - by surgical operation (1Ma 1:15). Such were called meshukim; recutiti. Some, in excess of anti-Jewish feeling, might be tempted to this.

Let him not be circumcised - as the Judaizing Christians would have him (Acts 15:1-41; Galatians 5:2).

1 Corinthians 7:18

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.