Romans 2:26

If then the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

25For circumcision indeed profits, if thou keep the law; but if thou art a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 8:11And I say to you, that many will come from the east and west, and will recline at table, with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven;

Acts 10:2devout, and one that feared God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God always.

Acts 11:3saying: Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

Romans 8:4that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:11Wherefore remember, that in time past ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hand,--

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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