Romans 2:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:

Romans 2:28 Cross References

Psalm 73:1

Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 9:25

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised in their uncircumcision;

Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair polled, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

Matthew 3:9

and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Romans 2:17

But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

Galatians 6:15

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Ephesians 2:11

Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

1 Peter 3:21

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Revelation 2:9

I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.