Romans 2:27
And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the law?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
Cross References
Matthew 3:15But Jesus answering said to him: Permit it now; for thus it becomes us to perform fully every righteous act. Then he permitted him.
Matthew 12:41Tho men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it; for they repented in accordance with the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Romans 2:20an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;
Romans 7:6but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 13:10Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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 →