Romans 2:27

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?

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26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

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

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

Romans 2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 13:10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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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