Romans 2:25

For the milah (circumcision) is an asset + 2:25 T.N. contra Ac 21:21 if you stand in mishma'at (obedience) to the Torah. But if + 2:25 See Ga 5:2-4; Dt 27:26 you are mefir (violator) of the Torah, + 2:25 2:23 your milah (circumcision) has become “orlah” (uncircumcision).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

24As it is written, Among the Goyim KOL HAYOM HASHEM HAELOHIM MINNO'ATZ + 2:24 Isa 52:5 (All the day long the Name of G-d is being blasphemed) because of you.

26If then the ben Adam without milah who is shomer fulfilling the just requirements of the Torah, + 2:26 T.N. see Ro 8:4 will not his orlah (uncircumcision) be counted as “milah”?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6And Hashem Eloheicha will circumcise thine lev, and the lev of thy zera, to love Hashem Eloheicha bekhol levavcha uvekhol nafshecha; that thou mayest live. + 30:6 Yn 3:3

Jeremiah 9:25Mitzrayim, and Yehudah, and Edom, and the Bnei Ammon, and Moav, and kol ketzutzei pe'ah (all in the farthest corners), that dwell in the midbar; for all these Goyim are uncircumcised, and kol Bais Yisroel are arlei lev (uncircumcised in heart). + 9:25 i.e., in need of regeneration, see Yn 3:3; Dt 10:16; 30:6 ; Jer 4:4; 31:31-34 ; Ro 9:6; 2:28-29; Isa 52:1; Ezek 36:25-27; 44:7,9; Co 2:11-12; 2C 5:17; Ti 3:4-7

Romans 2:23You who boast + 2:23 Ro 4:2; Lk 17:10 in Torah, + 2:23 Ro 2:29; 3:20; Ga 2:15-21 through deviating from the Torah, you commit Chillul Hashem.

Romans 4:11Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision! And he received the ot (sign or distinguishing mark) of the milah (circumcision) as a chotam (seal) of the Tzidkat HaEmunah (the Righteousness of Faith) which he had in his uncircumcision, in order that he might be father of all who believe through uncircumcision, that to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM might be reckoned, counted to them as well,

Galatians 6:15For neither bris milah is anything, nor fehlt (the lacking) of bris milah, but a Bri'a Chadasha. + 6:15 T.N. See Ga 5:2 Gentile context contra Ac 21:21

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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