Romans 2:25

World English Bible (2000)

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in 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 you do.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of 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 not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. 1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
  • Gal 5:3-6 : 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Eph 2:11-12 : 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands); 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh 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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    26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

    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 not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

    2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    78%

    23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

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

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    76%

    12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 3:1
    76%

    1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    74%

    13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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

    11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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

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

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

  • Gal 5:11
    72%

    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • Col 2:11
    71%

    11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

  • Eph 2:11
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    11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

  • John 7:22-23
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    22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

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

  • Jer 9:25
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    25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

  • Gen 17:10-11
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    70%

    10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

    11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

  • Gal 3:10
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    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

  • Jas 2:9-11
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    9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

    14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

  • Rom 2:17
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    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

  • Phil 3:3
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    3 For 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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    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Gal 2:18
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    18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

  • Gal 3:12
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    12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • Rom 4:2
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    2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

  • Col 2:13
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    13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

  • Titus 1:10
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    10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

  • Gal 2:7
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    7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision