Romans 2:27
And 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?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
28For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh.
Cross References
Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said to him: Suffer it now; for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 12:41Men of Nineveh will rise in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;
Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Romans 13:10Love works no ill to one's neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
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 →