Romans 2:25

The Passion Translation

You trust in the covenant sign of circumcision, yet circumcision only has value if you faithfully keep the teachings of the law. But if you violate the law, you have invalidated your circumcision.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:4

Listen, people of Judah and Jerusalem. Circumcise your hearts and become vulnerable to me. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like unquenchable fire on account of your evil deeds.”

Acts 7:51

“Why would you be so stubborn as to close your hearts and your ears to me? You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just like your forefathers!

Romans 2:13

For it’s not merely knowing the law that makes you right with God, but doing all that the law says that will cause God to pronounce you innocent.

Romans 2:23

Even though you boast in the law, you dishonor God, the Lawgiver, when you break it!

Romans 2:26

And if the uncircumcised one faithfully keeps the law, won’t his obedience make him more “Jewish” than the actual rite of circumcision?

Romans 2:27

And won’t the one who has never had the knife cut his foreskin be your judge when you break the law?

Romans 2:28

You are not a Jew if it’s only superficial—for it’s more than the surgical cut of a knife that makes you Jewish.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Your identity before God has nothing to do with circumcision or uncircumcision. What really matters is following God’s commandments.

Galatians 6:13

Not even those who are circumcised keep every detail of the written law. Yet they push you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you have become like them.

Galatians 6:15

Whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised is meaningless to me. What really matters is the transforming power of this new creation life.