Romans 2:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the Law will condemn you who, although you have the code in writing and have circumcision, break the Law.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

Common English Bible

²⁷ The one who isn’t physically circumcised but keeps the Law will judge you. You became a lawbreaker after you had the written Law and circumcision.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2:27 Cross References

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Acts 13:22

When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 2:15

They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, as their own conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them

Romans 2:20

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,

Romans 2:25

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26

So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Romans 2:29

Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person receives praise not from humans but from God.

Romans 3:30

since God is one, and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

Romans 8:4

so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but obeying the commandments of God is everything.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Ephesians 2:11

So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands—

2 Timothy 3:15

and how from childhood you have known sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.