Romans 2:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

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  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?
  • Rom 2:28-3:2 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. 1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way: chiefly, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also; 12 And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 3 For I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision matters nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 Therefore, remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

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  • Rom 2:26-29
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    26Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

    27And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?

    28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

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

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

    3For I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    23You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?

    24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision?

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    13He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How was it then credited? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

    12And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised.

  • Gal 6:15
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    15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision matters nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:30
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    30since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

  • Gal 5:11
    72%

    11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

  • Col 2:11
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    11In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Therefore, remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

  • John 7:22-23
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    22Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

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

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

  • Gen 17:10-11
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    10This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.

    11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

  • Gal 3:10
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    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.'

  • Jas 2:9-11
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    69%

    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

    11For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, yet if you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    69%

    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:

  • Rom 2:17
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    17Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

  • Phil 3:3
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    3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified.

    15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Gal 2:18
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    18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

  • Gal 3:12
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    12And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has reason to boast; but not before God.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

  • Col 2:13
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    13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

  • Titus 1:10
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    10For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

  • Gal 2:7
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    7But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised was committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter;