Romans 3:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου; ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς;

Transliteration

Ti therefore the perisson of the Ioudaiou? or what the ōpheleia of the peritomēs?

Grammar Details

*Ti*: interrogative pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular - what
*oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
*perisson*: adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - advantage/superiority
*Ioudaiou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - of Jewish person
*ē*: disjunctive particle - or
*tis*: interrogative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - what
*ōpheleia*: noun, nominative, feminine, singular - benefit/advantage
*peritomēs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - of circumcision

Word Meanings

*perisson*: advantage/surplus/excess/what is special
*Ioudaiou*: Jew/Jewish person/Judean
*ōpheleia*: benefit/profit/advantage/usefulness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 25:32 : 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die: and what profit shall the birthright do to me?
Eccl 6:8 : 8 For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
Eccl 6:11 : 11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,— I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
Rom 2:25-29 : 25 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. 26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? 27 and 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? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one {G1722} outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is a Jew who is one {G1722} 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 Cor 15:32 : 32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein {G1722} they that occupied themselves were not profited.

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