Romans 2:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward 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.

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

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.