Romans 2:27
The uncircumcised foreigners who keep the law will condemn you if you break the law, even though you have the written law and circumcision.
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In Context
28It's not what's on the outside that makes you a Jew; it's not the physical sign of circumcision.
Cross References
Matthew 3:15“Please do so, because it's good for us to do what God says is right,” Jesus told him. So John agreed to do it.
Matthew 12:41The people of Nineveh will rise in the judgment together with this generation and they will condemn it because they repented in response to Jonah's message—and as you see, there's someone greater than Jonah here!
Romans 2:20You think you can set ignorant people straight, a teacher of “children,” because you know from the law all the truth there is to know.
Romans 7:6But now we've been set free from the law, and have died to what kept us in chains, so that we can serve in the newness of the spirit and not the old letter of the law.
Romans 13:10Love doesn't do wrong to anyone, so love fulfils the law.
Galatians 5:14For the whole law is summed up in this one command, “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 →