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Romans 2:27

And will not the physically uncircumcised, who keeps the law, judge you along with your written code and circumcision, as a lawbreaker?

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

In Context

26Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he permitted Him.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and shall 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 the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Romans 7:6But now we were released from the law, having died in that to which we were held fast, so that we should serve as slaves in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 1 Sin's Advantage in the Law

Romans 13:10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. 1 Put on Christ

Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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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