Romans 2:25

for, on-one-hand, circumcision is-profiting if-supposing you-may-be-practicing law; on-the-other-hand, if-supposing you-may-be-being [a] step-aside-er/transgressor of{law}, the circumcision of{you} has-become foreskin-ia.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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{the God} through you is-being-evil-asserted in to{the nations} according-as it-has-been-written,

26So, if-supposing the foreskin-ia may-be-guarding the justice-effects of{the law}, emphatically-not[?] the forskin-ia of{same} will-be-word-ized/reckoned/accounted into circumcision[?],

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Cross References

Romans 2:23who in to{law} are-boasting, through of{the step-aside-sis[i.e. state of stepping aside]/transgression} of{the law}, you-are-un-value-izing the God,

Romans 4:11and he-takes [the] sign of{circumcision}, seal of{the justice-ness} of{the faith, the} in to{the forskin-ia}, into the same to-be-being father of{all the believing}, through of{foreskin-ia}, into the to-be-word-ized/reckoned/accounted the justice-ness also to{same[plural]},

Galatians 6:15for in to{Anointed Jesus} neither circumcision, what is-being, nor foreskin-ia; contrariwise, 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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