New American Standard Bible 1995

Romans 2:25-29

25For indeed circumcision is of value if you 1practice 2the Law; but if you are a transgressor 3of the Law, 4your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26 5So if 6the 7uncircumcised man 8keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

27And 9he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not 10judge you who 11though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor 12of the Law?

28For 13he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

29But 14he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and 15circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the 16Spirit, not by the letter; 17and his praise is not from men, but from God.

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Notes

1. Romans 2:25 Rom 2:13f, 27 ↩
2. Romans 2:25 Or law ↩
3. Romans 2:25 Or of law ↩
4. Romans 2:25 Jer 4:4; 9:25f ↩
5. Romans 2:26 1 Cor 7:19 ↩
6. Romans 2:26 Rom 3:30; Eph 2:11 ↩
7. Romans 2:26 Lit uncircumcision ↩
8. Romans 2:26 Rom 2:25, 27; 8:4 ↩
9. Romans 2:27 Rom 3:30; Eph 2:11 ↩
10. Romans 2:27 Matt 12:41 ↩
11. Romans 2:27 Lit through the letter ↩
12. Romans 2:27 Or of law ↩
13. Romans 2:28 John 8:39; Rom 2:17; 9:6; Gal 6:15 ↩
14. Romans 2:29 Phil 3:3; Col 2:11 ↩
15. Romans 2:29 Deut 30:6 ↩
16. Romans 2:29 Rom 2:27; 7:6; 2 Cor 3:6 ↩
17. Romans 2:29 John 5:44; 12:43; 1 Cor 4:5; 2 Cor 10:18 ↩

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