Romans 2:27
and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
28nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;
Cross References
Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Permit it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Matthew 12:41So that the men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgement against this generation, and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold a greater than Jonas is here.
Romans 2:20a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.
Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 13:10Love worketh no evil to our neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one precept, 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 →