Romans 2:27

And the naturally uncircumcised ben Adam who has mishma'at (obedience) to the Torah + 2:27 T.N. Ro 2:15 will arise as a judgment on you. You! The very one who through chumra (stringency, strict adherence to the letter of the law) and circumcision + 2:27 i.e., uncircumcision, see Ro 2:25 are the transgressor + 2:27 Ro 7:22-23; Yn 7:19 of Torah!

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

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”?

28For the true Yehudi (Jew) is not the one [humanly] perceived as such, nor true milah that which is performed visibly in the flesh;

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15But answering him, Yehoshua said, Permit it now, for thus it is proper to fulfill all Tzidkat Hashem. + 3:15 Dan 9:24

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand up at the Yom HaDin with this generation and they will condemn it, for the men of Nineveh made teshuva at the darshenen (preaching) of Yonah, and, hinei, something much greater than Yonah is here.

Romans 2:20A rabbinic moreh (teacher) of the foolish, a melammed (instructor) of the young, having the embodiment of da'as (knowledge) and Emes + 2:20 Ro 1:25 in the Torah…

Romans 7:6But now we have become niftar (freed, deceased) from the dominating ownership of the Gezetz, having died to that by which we were confined, so that we might serve in the Ruach Hakodesh of hitkhadshut and newness and not in the yoshen (oldness) of chumra (stringency, strict adherence to the letter of the law). + 7:6 Ro 2:29

Romans 13:10Ahavah (agape) does no wrong to the re'a (neighbor); therefore the fulfillment of the Torah is ahavah.

Galatians 5:14For the entire Torah has been summed up in one word: V'AHAVTA L'RE'ACHA KAMOCHA + 5:14 Lv 19:18 (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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