Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed benefits you if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it has been written.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so you will love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Jeremiah 9:25“See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.
Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Romans 4:11Abraham received the sign of circumcision. This was a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had already possessed when he was in uncircumcision. The result of this sign was that he became the father of all those who believe, even if they are in uncircumcision. This means that righteousness will be counted for them.
Galatians 6:15For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but what counts is 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 →