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Romans 2:27

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You Jews have the written law and circumcision, but you break the law. So those who are not circumcised in their bodies, but still obey the law, will show that you are guilty.

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Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are God’s will.” So John agreed to baptize Jesus.

After God took him away, God made David their king. God said about him: ‘I have found in David son of Jesse the kind of man I want. He will do all I want him to do.’

Love never hurts a neighbor, so loving is obeying all the law.

They show that in their hearts they know what is right and wrong, just as the law commands. And they show this by their consciences. Sometimes their thoughts tell them they did wrong, and sometimes their thoughts tell them they did right.)

You think you can show foolish people what is right and teach those who know nothing. You have the law; so you think you know everything and have all truth.

If you follow the law, your circumcision has meaning. But if you break the law, it is as if you were never circumcised.

People who are not Jews are not circumcised, but if they do what the law says, it is as if they were circumcised.

A person is a Jew only if he is a Jew inside; true circumcision is done in the heart by the Spirit, not by the written law. Such a person gets praise from God rather than from people.

Of course he is, because there is only one God. He will make Jews right with him by their faith, and he will also make those who are not Jews right with him through their faith.

He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.

It is not important if a man is circumcised or not. The important thing is obeying God’s commands.

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

You were not born Jewish. You are the people the Jews call “uncircumcised.” Those who call you “uncircumcised” call themselves “circumcised.” (Their circumcision is only something they themselves do on their bodies.)

Since you were a child you have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise. And that wisdom leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

It is by faith we understand that the whole world was made by God’s command so what we see was made by something that cannot be seen.




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