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Romans 2:27

And will not the one who is naturally uncircumcised condemn you if he keeps the law? This is because you have the written law and circumcision, yet you break the law!

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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 uncircumcised person keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered as circumcision?

28For he is not a Jew who is merely one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is merely outward in the flesh.

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15Jesus responded and said to him, “Permit it now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John permitted him.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation of people and will condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and see, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Romans 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of little children, and that you have in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth, then how does this affect the way you live your life?

Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 13:10Love does not harm one's neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one command: “You must 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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