Romans 3:1

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 25:32 : 32 And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?
  • Eccl 6:8 : 8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
  • Eccl 6:11 : 11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
  • Rom 2:25-29 : 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. 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.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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    2Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

    3And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

  • Rom 2:24-29
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    24For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

    25It 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.

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

    27And 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.

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

    29But 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 3:29-30
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

    30If 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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    3What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

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

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

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

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Is 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.

    10How, 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:

    11And 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;

    12And 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.

  • Rom 4:1-2
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    1What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

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

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • Phil 3:3-5
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    3For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

    4Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

    5Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18If 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.

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

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    12Those 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.

    13Because 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.

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    9What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

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

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

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

  • Rom 2:9-10
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    9Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

    10But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

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    4Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

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

  • Phil 3:7
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    7But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

  • Rom 2:17
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    17But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

  • Titus 1:10
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    10For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

  • Rom 11:1
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    1So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

  • Gen 17:11
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    11In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

  • Jas 2:14
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    14What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?

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    1Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

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    3Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11For 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;

  • Acts 11:2
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    2And when Peter came to Jerusalem, those who kept the rule of circumcision had an argument with him,

  • Gal 3:14
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    14So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.