Romans 2:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ 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

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 9:25

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will attend to all those who are circumcised only in the foreskin:

Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all those with shaved temples who live in the desert. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.

Matthew 3:9

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God

Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation is everything!

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—

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Revelation 2:9

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