Romans 2:27

New International Reader's Version

Many are not circumcised physically, but they obey the law. They will prove that you are guilty. You are breaking the law, even though you have the written law and are circumcised.

Cross References

Matthew 3:15

Jesus replied, “Let it be this way for now. It is right for us to do this. It carries out God’s holy plan.” Then John agreed.

Acts 13:22

God removed him and made David their king. Here is God’s witness about him. ‘David, son of Jesse, is a man dear to my heart,’ he said. ‘David will do everything I want him to do.’

Romans 13:10

Love does not harm its neighbor. So love does everything the law requires.

Romans 2:15

They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts. The way their minds judge them proves this fact. Sometimes their thoughts find them guilty. At other times their thoughts find them not guilty.

Romans 2:20

You think you can make foolish people wise. You act like you’re teaching little children. You think that the law gives you all knowledge and truth.

Romans 2:25

Circumcision has value if you obey the law. But if you break the law, it is just as if you hadn’t been circumcised.

Romans 2:26

And sometimes those who aren’t circumcised do what the law requires. Won’t God accept them as if they had been circumcised?

Romans 2:29

No, a person is a Jew only if they are a Jew on the inside. And true circumcision means that the heart has been circumcised by the Holy Spirit. The person whose heart has been circumcised does more than obey the written law. The praise that matters for that kind of person does not come from other people. It comes from God.

Romans 3:30

There is only one God. When those who are circumcised believe in him, he makes them right with himself. Suppose those who are not circumcised believe in him. Then God also will make them right with himself.

Romans 8:4

Jesus does for us everything the holy law requires. The power of sin should no longer control the way we live. The Holy Spirit should control the way we live.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Being circumcised means nothing. Being uncircumcised means nothing. Doing what God commands is what counts.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has given us the power to serve under a new covenant. The covenant is not based on the written Law of Moses. It comes from the Holy Spirit. The written Law kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Galatians 5:14

The whole law is fulfilled by obeying this one command. “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” (Leviticus 19:18)

Ephesians 2:11

You who are not Jews by birth, here is what I want you to remember. You are called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “circumcised.” But they have only been circumcised in their bodies by human hands.

2 Timothy 3:15

You have known the Holy Scriptures ever since you were a little child. They are able to teach you how to be saved by believing in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11:3

We have faith. So we understand that everything was made when God commanded it. That’s why we believe that what we see was not made out of what could be seen.