Romans 2:25

Bible in Basic English 1965

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:4

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Acts 7:51

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

Romans 2:23

You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

Romans 2:26

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

Romans 2:27

And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

Romans 2:28

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

Galatians 6:13

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

Galatians 6:15

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.