Romans 2:26

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

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In The King James Version

Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

In Context

25It 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.

27And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

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Cross References

Joshua 5:5All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

Matthew 8:11And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

Acts 10:2A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

Acts 11:3Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.

Romans 8:4So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:11For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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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