Romans 2:27

Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of 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 therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

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

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

Romans 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Romans 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 13:10Love does not harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall 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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