Romans 2:25

Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

In Context

24For, just as it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

26So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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Cross References

Romans 2:23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?

Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness from his faith while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, in order that this righteousness may be credited to them also,

Galatians 6:15Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

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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