Romans 2:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁸ For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly,  and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ For he is not a [real] Jew who is only one outwardly and publicly, nor is [true] circumcision something external and physical.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

Common English Bible

²⁸ It isn’t the Jew who maintains outward appearances who will receive praise from God, and it isn’t people who are outwardly circumcised on their bodies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh.

Romans 2:28 Cross References

Psalm 73:1

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the  Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and residents 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

‘ “Look, the days are coming #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised:

Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair on their temples.  All these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” ’

Matthew 3:9

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.”  For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

John 1:47

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him and said about him, ‘Here truly is an Israelite   in whom there is no deceit.’

Romans 2:17

Now if  you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law,  and boast in God,

Galatians 6:15

For  both circumcision and uncircumcision  mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

Ephesians 2:11

So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh #– #called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those called ‘the circumcised’,  which is done in the flesh by human hands.

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body,  but the pledge  of a good conscience towards God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Revelation 2:9

I know your   affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.