Romans 2:25

American Standard Version (1901)

For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
  • Rom 2:28-3:2 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them; 12 and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

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  • Rom 2:26-29
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    26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

    27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

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

    29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    23thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

    24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    13He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.

    10How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision:

    11and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them;

    12and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Gal 6:15
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    15For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:30
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    30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

  • Col 2:11
    71%

    11in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

  • John 7:22-23
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    22Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

    23If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

  • Gen 17:10-11
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    10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.

    11And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.

  • Gal 3:10
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    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

  • Jas 2:9-11
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    9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

    11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

    13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

    14(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

  • Rom 2:17
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    17But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

  • Phil 3:3
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    3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

    15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

  • Gal 2:18
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    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

  • Gal 3:12
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    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

  • Col 2:13
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    13And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

  • Titus 1:10
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    10For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

  • Gal 2:7
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    7but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with [the gospel] of the circumcision