Romans 2:25

For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

In Context

24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.

26If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6And LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.

Jeremiah 9:25Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

Romans 2:23Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.

Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them),

Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29

The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →

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