Romans 2:25

For circumcision profiteth, indeed, if thou fulfillest the law: but if thou departest from the law, thy circumcision becometh uncircumcision.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

26And if uncircumcision should keep the precepts of the law, would not that uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

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Cross References

Romans 2:23And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?

Romans 4:11For he received circumcision, as the sign and the seal of the righteousness of his faith while in uncircumcision: that he might become the father of all them of the uncircumcision who believe; and that it might be reckoned to them also for righteousness:

Galatians 6:15For circumcision is nothing; neither is 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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