Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. New Living Translation The Jewish ceremony of circumcision has value only if you obey God’s law. But if you don’t obey God’s law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile. English Standard Version For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Berean Standard Bible Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Berean Literal Bible For circumcision profits if you do the Law; but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. King James Bible For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. New King James Version For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New American Standard Bible For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a violator of the Law, your circumcision has turned into uncircumcision. NASB 1995 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. NASB 1977 For indeed circumcision is of value, if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Legacy Standard Bible For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Amplified Bible Circumcision [the sign of the covenant of Abraham] is indeed of value if you practice the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision [it is meaningless in God’s sight]. Christian Standard Bible Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Holman Christian Standard Bible For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. American Standard Version For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For circumcision is beneficial, if you will perfectly observe The Written Law, but if you depart from The Written Law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Contemporary English Version Being circumcised is worthwhile, if you obey the Law. But if you don't obey the Law, you are no better off than people who are not circumcised. Douay-Rheims Bible Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. English Revised Version For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. GOD'S WORD® Translation For example, circumcision is valuable if you follow Moses' laws. If you don't follow those laws, your circumcision amounts to uncircumcision. Good News Translation If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised. International Standard Version For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised. Literal Standard Version For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you may practice law, but if you may be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Majority Standard Bible Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New American Bible Circumcision, to be sure, has value if you observe the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. NET Bible For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New Revised Standard Version Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New Heart English Bible 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. Webster's Bible Translation For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Weymouth New Testament Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing. World English Bible 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. Young's Literal Translation For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision. Additional Translations ... Context The Jews and the Law…24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?… Cross References Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds." Jeremiah 9:25 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised: Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. Romans 2:26 If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Romans 2:27 The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker. 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commandments is what counts. Galatians 5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. Treasury of Scripture For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. circumcision. Romans 2:28,29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: … Romans 3:1,2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? … Romans 4:11,12 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: … but if. Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; … Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Jump to Previous Break Breaker Circumcised Circumcision Counts Doer Fact Indeed Keepest Law Mayest Obey Observe Practice Practise Profit Profiteth Profits Transgressor True. Uncircumcision Value VerilyJump to Next Break Breaker Circumcised Circumcision Counts Doer Fact Indeed Keepest Law Mayest Obey Observe Practice Practise Profit Profiteth Profits Transgressor True. Uncircumcision Value VerilyRomans 2 1. No excuse for sin.6. No escape from judgment. 14. Gentiles cannot; 17. nor Jews. (25-29) This section forms a connecting-link with the opening of the next chapter. "The characteristic mark and badge of the Jew has two sides, the one outward and formal, the other inward and real. Its essence consists in the latter, and without this inward circumcision the outward profits nothing. It is not necessary to be born a Jew to possess it." Precisely the same language might be applied to the Christian sacraments, or to the privileges of any particular communion. Privileges they may be, but they depend for their efficacy entirely upon the disposition of the heart which underlies them. (25) Is made.--Is become,--ipso facto, "is reduced to the case of." Verses 25, 26. - For circumcision verily profiteth (not justifieth, but only profiteth: it is of advantage, and no unmeaning rite, if thou understandest and carriest out its meaning; it introduces thee into a state of knowledge and opportunity, and certainty of Divine favour), if thou keep the Law: but if thou be a transgressor of the Law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision he counted for circumcision? Here, again, as in vers. 10, 11, 14, 15, the impartiality of God's dealings with all men alike is distinctly declared.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek CircumcisionΠεριτομὴ (Peritomē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4061: Circumcision. From peritemno; circumcision. has value ὠφελεῖ (ōphelei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 5623: To help, benefit, do good, be useful (to), profit. From the same as opheleia; to be useful, i.e. To benefit. if ἐὰν (ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you observe πράσσῃς (prassēs) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4238: To do, perform, accomplish; be in any condition, i.e. I fare; I exact, require. [the] Law, νόμον (nomon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. but δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. if ἐὰν (ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you ᾖς (ēs) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. break παραβάτης (parabatēs) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3848: A transgressor, law-breaker. From parabaino; a violator. [the] Law, νόμου (nomou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. circumcision περιτομή (peritomē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4061: Circumcision. From peritemno; circumcision. has become γέγονεν (gegonen) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. uncircumcision. ἀκροβυστία (akrobystia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 203: From akron and probably a modified form of posthe; the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised state or person. Links Romans 2:25 NIVRomans 2:25 NLT Romans 2:25 ESV Romans 2:25 NASB Romans 2:25 KJV Romans 2:25 BibleApps.com Romans 2:25 Biblia Paralela Romans 2:25 Chinese Bible Romans 2:25 French Bible Romans 2:25 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Romans 2:25 For circumcision indeed profits if you (Rom. Ro) |
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