Romans 2:26

Then if uncircumcision may keep the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

In Context

25For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

27and that which is uncircumcision by nature, perfecting the law, will judge you, who through the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:11And I say unto you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and sit up with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens:

Acts 10:2devout, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying to God always;

Acts 11:3that, You went in unto men having uncircumcision, and ate with them.

Romans 8:4in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit.

Ephesians 2:11Therefore remember, that when you were Gentiles in the flesh, called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, made in the flesh with hands;

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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