Romans 2:27
Good News Translation
And so you Jews will be condemned by the Gentiles because you break the Law, even though you have it written down and are circumcised; but they obey the Law, even though they are not physically circumcised.

New Revised Standard Version
Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

Contemporary English Version
So everyone who obeys the Law, but has never been circumcised, will condemn you. Even though you are circumcised and have the Law, you still don't obey its teachings.

New American Bible
Indeed, those who are physically uncircumcised but carry out the law will pass judgment on you, with your written law and circumcision, who break the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

if it fulfil.

Romans 8:4 That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Romans 13:10 The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.

Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

Matthew 5:17-20 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. . . .

Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

judge.

Ezekiel 16:48-52 As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters. . . .

Matthew 12:41,42 The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here. . . .

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.

by the.

Romans 2:20,29 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. . . .

Romans 7:6-8 But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth.

Context
The Jews and the Law
26If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27And 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? 28For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:41
The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

Romans 2:15
Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,

Romans 2:25
Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

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

Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 3:30
For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

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

Ephesians 2:11
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:

2 Timothy 3:15
And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 2:26
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