Romans 2:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Rom 9:6-8 : 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called." 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
  • Jer 9:26 : 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.
  • Hos 1:6-9 : 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen." 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. 9 He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
  • John 8:37-39 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
  • Rom 4:10-12 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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  • Rom 2:29
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    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.

  • Rom 2:24-27
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    24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

    25 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.

    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?

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

  • Phil 3:3-5
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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;

    4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

    5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

  • Col 2:11
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    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;

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    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.

  • Gal 2:15-16
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    15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Rom 3:29-30
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    29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

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

  • 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.

  • 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);

  • 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 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 2:3
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    3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

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

  • Col 3:11
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    11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Rom 9:6
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    6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

  • Rom 2:17
    72%

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

  • Gal 5:2-3
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    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.

  • John 7:22
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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.

  • Jer 9:25-26
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    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.

  • Rom 8:8-9
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    8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • Rom 2:13-14
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    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 9:8
    70%

    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

  • Gal 2:7-8
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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

    8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

  • Gen 17:13-14
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    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."

  • Gal 3:28
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    28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

  • Ezek 44:9
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    9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

  • Gen 17:11
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    11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

  • Gal 2:12
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    12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

  • Acts 16:3
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    3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • Rom 2:10
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    10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.