Romans 2:25

New International Version

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire because of the evil you have done— burn with no one to quench it.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

Romans 2:23

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Romans 2:26

So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?

Romans 2:27

The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

Romans 2:28

A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts.

Galatians 6:13

Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh.

Galatians 6:15

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.