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Romans 2:26

If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

25Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

27And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

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Cross References

Joshua 5:5Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

Matthew 8:11And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven:

Acts 10:2A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and always praying to God.

Acts 11:3Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them?

Romans 8:4That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Ephesians 2:11For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called 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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