Romans 3:1
Good News Translation
Do the Jews then have any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised?

New Revised Standard Version
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Contemporary English Version
What good is it to be a Jew? What good is it to be circumcised?

New American Bible
What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

advantage.

Romans 2:25-29 Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. . . .

Genesis 25:32 He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?

Ecclesiastes 6:8,11 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life? . . .

Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

1 Corinthians 15:32 If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

Hebrews 13:9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

Context
God Remains Faithful
1What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? 2Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.…
Cross References
Psalm 147:20
He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

John 4:22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

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 3:2
Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

Romans 3:9
What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

Romans 2:29
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