Romans 2:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh; 26 On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
  • Rom 2:28-3:2 : 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. 1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; 12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law. 4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:26-29
    4 verses
    88%

    26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

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

  • Gal 5:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Rom 2:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

    24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

    19 Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

  • Gal 6:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

    13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

  • Rom 3:1
    76%

    1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

  • Gen 17:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

    14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

  • Rom 4:9-12
    4 verses
    74%

    9 Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

    10 How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

    11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

    12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

  • Gal 6:15
    73%

    15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

  • Gal 5:6
    73%

    6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:30
    73%

    30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

  • Gal 5:11
    72%

    11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

  • Col 2:11
    71%

    11 In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Eph 2:11
    71%

    11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

  • John 7:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

    23 If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

  • Jer 9:25
    71%

    25 See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

  • Gen 17:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

    11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

  • Gal 3:10
    70%

    10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

  • Jas 2:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

    10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • Rom 2:17
    69%

    17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

  • Phil 3:3
    69%

    3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

  • Rom 4:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Gal 2:18
    69%

    18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

  • Gal 3:12
    68%

    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Rom 4:2
    68%

    2 For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

  • Deut 10:16
    68%

    16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

  • Col 2:13
    68%

    13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

  • Titus 1:10
    68%

    10 For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

  • Gal 2:7
    67%

    7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision