Romans 2:25

Catholic Public Domain Version

Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:4

Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins from your hearts, O men of Judah, O inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise my indignation may burst forth and flare up like a fire. And then there will be no one who can extinguish it, because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Acts 7:51

Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

Romans 2:23

You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.

Romans 2:26

And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision?

Romans 2:27

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?

Romans 2:28

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

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; there is only the observance of the commandments of God.

Galatians 6:13

And yet, neither do they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law. Instead, they want you to be circumcised, so that they may glory in your flesh.

Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails in any way, but instead there is a new creature.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, so that you may love the Lord your God with your entire heart and with your entire soul, so that you may be able to live.