Romans 2:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Commit yourselves to the LORD; Dedicate your hearts to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 The LORD says,“Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh. 26 That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the LORD’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!
  • Rom 2:28-3:2 : 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, 29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God. 1 Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them. 12 And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace! 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands– 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 The LORD your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

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  • Rom 2:26-29
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    26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

    28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

    29but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

  • Gal 5:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

    2Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

    3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

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

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    76%

    12Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

  • Rom 3:1
    76%

    1Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    13They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

    14Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people– he has failed to carry out my requirement.”

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    74%

    9Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

    10How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

    11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

    12And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

  • Gal 6:15
    73%

    15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!

  • Gal 5:6
    73%

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:30
    73%

    30Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

  • Gal 5:11
    72%

    11Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

  • Col 2:11
    71%

    11In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

  • Eph 2:11
    71%

    11New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

  • John 7:22-23
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    22However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

    23But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

  • Jer 9:25
    71%

    25The LORD says,“Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.

  • Gen 17:10-11
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    70%

    10This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

    11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

  • Gal 3:10
    70%

    10For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

  • Jas 2:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    69%

    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 2:17
    69%

    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

  • Phil 3:3
    69%

    3For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    69%

    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • Gal 2:18
    69%

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

  • Gal 3:12
    68%

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.

  • Deut 10:16
    68%

    16Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

  • Col 2:13
    68%

    13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

  • Titus 1:10
    68%

    10For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

  • Gal 2:7
    67%

    7On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised