Romans 2:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Rom 8:4 : 4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 7:18-19 : 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.
  • Col 2:11 : 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 : 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;
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
  • Isa 56:6-7 : 6 And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me: 7 I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • Matt 15:28 : 28 Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
  • Acts 10:2-4 : 2 A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times. 3 He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius! 4 And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.
  • Acts 10:34-35 : 34 Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
  • Acts 11:3-9 : 3 Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them. 4 But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them, 5 I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me: 6 And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds. 7 And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food. 8 But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth. 9 But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common. 10 And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven. 11 And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were. 12 And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house: 13 And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; 14 Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation. 15 And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first. 16 And the words of the Lord came into my mind, how he said, The baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit. 17 If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God? 18 And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.
  • Rom 3:30 : 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.

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  • Rom 2:27-29
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    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.

  • Rom 2:23-25
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    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.

    25 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.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    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.

  • Rom 3:30
    77%

    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 6:12-13
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    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
    75%

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

  • Gal 5:2-3
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    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.

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    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.

  • Gal 5:6
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    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
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    15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    73%

    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;

  • Eph 2:11
    72%

    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;

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

  • Jer 9:25-26
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    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.

  • Gal 5:11
    70%

    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.

  • Gal 2:7
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    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

  • John 7:22-23
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    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?

  • Gal 2:3
    70%

    3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

  • Col 2:11
    70%

    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;

  • Rom 4:2
    70%

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

  • Gal 3:21
    70%

    21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Gal 2:15-16
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    15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • Gen 17:11
    70%

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

  • Gal 3:12
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    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Exod 12:48
    69%

    48 And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

  • Gen 34:22
    69%

    22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

  • Gal 3:10
    69%

    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 2:10
    69%

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

  • Phil 3:3
    68%

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

  • Ezek 44:9
    68%

    9 For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.