Romans 2:25
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
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In Context
24For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
Jeremiah 9:25See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;
Romans 2:23You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Romans 4:11And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
Galatians 6:15For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
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 →