Romans 3:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

What is then the preferment of the Iewe? Or what is the profite of circumcision?

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  • Gen 25:32 : 32 And Esau sayd, Lo, I am almost dead, what is then this birthright to me?
  • Eccl 6:8 : 8 For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?
  • Eccl 6:11 : 11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lorde? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, & of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates. 12 When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts? 13 Bring no mo oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies. 14 My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them. 15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?
  • Rom 2:25-29 : 25 For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe? 28 For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Iewe which is one wtin, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of men, what aduantageth it me, if the dead be not raised vp? let vs eate and drinke: for to morowe we shall die.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not caried about with diuers & strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be stablished with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them that haue bene occupied therein.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:2-3
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    2Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.

    3For what, though some did not beleeue? Shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

  • Rom 2:24-29
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    24For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

    25For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

    27And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

    28For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

    29But he is a Iewe which is one wtin, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Rom 3:29-30
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    29God, is he the God of the Iewes onely, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.

    30For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.

  • Job 35:3
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    3For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?

  • Gal 5:1-3
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    1Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

    2Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.

    3For I testifie againe to euery man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keepe the whole Lawe.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.

    10Howe was it then imputed? when he was circumcised, or vncircumcised? not when he was cricumcised, but when he was vncircumcised.

    11After, he receiued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the righteousnesse of ye faith which he had, when he was vncircumcised, that he should be the father of all them that beleeue, not being circumcised, that righteousnesse might be imputed to them also,

    12And the father of circumcision, not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision, but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was vncircumcised.

  • Rom 4:1-2
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    1What shal we say then, that Abraham our father hath found concerning the flesh?

    2For if Abraham were iustified by workes, he hath wherein to reioyce, but not with God.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,

  • Phil 3:3-5
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    3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirite, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh:

    4Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I,

    5Circumcised the eight day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrewe of the Ebrewes, by the Lawe a Pharise.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18Is any man called being circumcised? Let him not gather his vncircumcision: is any called vncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandements of God.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12As many as desire to make a faire shewe in the flesh, they constraine you to be circumcised, onely because they would not suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ.

    13For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which folowed not righteousnes, haue attained vnto righteousnes, euen the righteousnes which is of faith.

  • Gal 6:15
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    15For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but a newe creature.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slaunder of the crosse abolished.

  • Rom 2:9-10
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    9Tribulation and anguish shalbe vpon the soule of euery man that doeth euill: of the Iewe first, and also of the Grecian.

    10But to euery man that doeth good, shalbe glory, and honour, and peace: to the Iew first, and also to the Grecian.

  • Rom 9:4
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    4Which are the Israelites, to whome perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the Couenants, and the giuing of the Lawe, and the seruice of God, and the promises.

  • Gal 2:15
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    15We which are Iewes by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

  • Phil 3:7
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    7But the thinges that were vantage vnto me, the same I counted losse for Christes sake.

  • Rom 2:17
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    17Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,

  • Titus 1:10
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    10For there are many disobedient & vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

  • Rom 11:1
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    1I Demaund then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid: for I also am an Israelite, of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.

  • Gen 17:11
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    11That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shalbe a signe of the couenant betweene me and you.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.

  • Jas 2:14
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    14What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him?

  • Acts 15:1
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    1Then came downe certaine from Iudea, and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the maner of Moses, ye cannot be saued.

  • Acts 16:3
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    3Therefore Paul would that he should go forth with him, and tooke and circumcised him, because of ye Iewes, which were in those quarters: for they knewe all, that his father was a Grecian.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, and called vncircumcision of them, which are called circumcision in the flesh, made with hands,

  • Acts 11:2
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    2And when Peter was come vp to Hierusalem, they of the circumcision contended against him,

  • Gal 3:14
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.