Romans 2:27

Circumcision of No Avail

25 ^aFor circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26 Therefore, ^aif an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, ^ajudge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

28 For ^ahe is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;

29 but he is a Jew ^awho is one inwardly; and ^bcircumcision is that of the heart, ^cin the Spirit, not in the letter; ^dwhose praise is not from men but from God.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Romans 2:27

And shall not uncircumcision, which is by nature - And shall not the Gentile, who is , according to the custom of his country - who is, by birth, not obliged to be circumcised.

If it fulfill the law - If such a person act according to the spirit and design of the law; judge condemn thee, who, whilst thou dost enjoy the letter, the written law, and bearest in thy body the proof of the circumcision which it requires, dost transgress that law?

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