Romans 2:25
Good News Translation
If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised.

New Revised Standard Version
Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Contemporary English Version
Being circumcised is worthwhile, if you obey the Law. But if you don't obey the Law, you are no better off than people who are not circumcised.

New American Bible
Circumcision, to be sure, has value if you observe the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

circumcision.

Romans 2:28,29 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. . . .

Romans 3:1,2 What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? . . .

Romans 4:11,12 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice: . . .

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Jeremiah 4:4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Galatians 5:3-6 And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law. . . .

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Ephesians 2:11,12 For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands: . . .

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Romans 2:23 Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised. . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

Context
The Jews and the Law
24(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) 25Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:4
Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Jeremiah 9:25
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.

Romans 2:13
For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Romans 2:26
If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Romans 2:27
And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

Galatians 5:3
And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Galatians 6:13
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Romans 2:24
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