Romans 2:25
Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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In Context
24(For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6The Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, so that you may love the Lord your God with your entire heart and with your entire soul, so that you may be able to live.
Jeremiah 9:25Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all who are uncircumcised:
Romans 2:23You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.
Romans 4:11For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,
Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails in any way, but instead there is a new creature.
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 →