Romans 2:25

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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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

24For “the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Jeremiah 9:25“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

Romans 2:23You who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by disobeying the law?

Romans 4:11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but 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 →

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