Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. New Living Translation The Jewish ceremony of circumcision has value only if you obey God’s law. But if you don’t obey God’s law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile. English Standard Version For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Berean Standard Bible Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Berean Literal Bible For circumcision profits if you do the Law; but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. King James Bible For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. New King James Version For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New American Standard Bible For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a violator of the Law, your circumcision has turned into uncircumcision. NASB 1995 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. NASB 1977 For indeed circumcision is of value, if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Legacy Standard Bible For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Amplified Bible Circumcision [the sign of the covenant of Abraham] is indeed of value if you practice the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision [it is meaningless in God’s sight]. Christian Standard Bible Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Holman Christian Standard Bible For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. American Standard Version For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is 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. English Revised Version For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. GOD'S WORD® Translation For example, circumcision is valuable if you follow Moses' laws. If you don't follow those laws, your circumcision amounts to uncircumcision. 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. International Standard Version For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised. Majority Standard Bible Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. NET Bible For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. New Heart English Bible For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Webster's Bible Translation For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Weymouth New Testament Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing. World English Bible For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor circumcision, indeed, profits, if you may practice law, but if you may be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Berean Literal Bible For circumcision profits if you do the Law; but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Young's Literal Translation For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision. Smith's Literal Translation For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleCircumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Catholic Public Domain Version Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 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. 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. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor circumcision is profitable only if you keep the law: but if you break the law, then circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For circumcision is beneficial, if you will perfectly observe The Written Law, but if you depart from The Written Law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. NT Translations Anderson New TestamentNow, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Godbey New Testament For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Haweis New Testament For circumcision indeed is advantageous, if thou practise the law: but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision becomes uncircumcision, Mace New Testament Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen. Weymouth New Testament Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing. Worrell New Testament For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you do the law; but, if you are transgressors of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Worsley New Testament For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Jews and the Law…24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?… Cross References Galatians 5:2-6 Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. / Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. / You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ... Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation. 1 Corinthians 7:18-19 Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised. / Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts. Philippians 3:3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. Acts 15:1-11 Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” / And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. / Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. ... Galatians 2:3-5 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. / This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. / We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. / And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Ephesians 2:11-13 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)— / remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. / But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. Genesis 17:9-14 God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you. / This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. / You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. ... Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more. Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.” Jeremiah 9:25-26 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh— / Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” Ezekiel 44:7-9 In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant. / And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites. Leviticus 26:41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, Treasury of Scripture For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. circumcision. Romans 2:28,29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: … Romans 3:1,2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? … Romans 4:11,12 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: … but if. Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; … Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Jump to Previous Break Breaker Circumcised Circumcision Counts Doer Fact Indeed Keepest Law Mayest Obey Observe Practice Practise Profit Profiteth Profits Transgressor True. Uncircumcision Value VerilyJump to Next Break Breaker Circumcised Circumcision Counts Doer Fact Indeed Keepest Law Mayest Obey Observe Practice Practise Profit Profiteth Profits Transgressor True. Uncircumcision Value VerilyRomans 2 1. No excuse for sin.6. No escape from judgment. 14. Gentiles cannot; 17. nor Jews. Circumcision has value if you observe the law Circumcision was a physical sign of the covenant between God and Abraham, marking the Jewish people as set apart (Genesis 17:10-14). It symbolized a commitment to God and His commandments. In the Jewish context, circumcision was not merely a physical act but a representation of one's dedication to the law. The value of circumcision is contingent upon adherence to the law, reflecting the principle that outward signs must be accompanied by inward obedience. This echoes the prophetic call for a "circumcision of the heart" (Deuteronomy 10:16, Jeremiah 4:4), emphasizing internal transformation over external ritual. but if you break the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision Persons / Places / Events 1. Paul the ApostleThe author of the Book of Romans, Paul is addressing both Jewish and Gentile believers in Rome, emphasizing the importance of faith and obedience over mere ritualistic practices. 2. Jewish Believers in Rome The primary audience for this passage, who valued circumcision as a sign of the covenant with God. 3. Gentile Believers Also part of the Roman church, they were not bound by Jewish customs like circumcision, which Paul addresses to promote unity and understanding. 4. Circumcision A physical sign of the covenant between God and Abraham's descendants, representing Jewish identity and commitment to God's law. 5. The Law Refers to the Mosaic Law, which includes commandments and rituals that the Jewish people were expected to follow. Teaching Points The Value of ObedienceTrue value in religious practices comes from obedience to God's commands, not merely performing rituals. Heart Over Ritual God desires a transformation of the heart, which is more significant than outward signs like circumcision. Unity in Christ Both Jews and Gentiles are called to unity in Christ, transcending cultural and ritualistic differences. Faith and Works Faith must be accompanied by actions that reflect obedience to God's will. Covenant Relationship Our relationship with God is based on faith and obedience, not just external symbols.(25-29) This section forms a connecting-link with the opening of the next chapter. "The characteristic mark and badge of the Jew has two sides, the one outward and formal, the other inward and real. Its essence consists in the latter, and without this inward circumcision the outward profits nothing. It is not necessary to be born a Jew to possess it." Precisely the same language might be applied to the Christian sacraments, or to the privileges of any particular communion. Privileges they may be, but they depend for their efficacy entirely upon the disposition of the heart which underlies them. (25) Is made.--Is become,--ipso facto, "is reduced to the case of." Verses 25, 26. - For circumcision verily profiteth (not justifieth, but only profiteth: it is of advantage, and no unmeaning rite, if thou understandest and carriest out its meaning; it introduces thee into a state of knowledge and opportunity, and certainty of Divine favour), if thou keep the Law: but if thou be a transgressor of the Law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision he counted for circumcision? Here, again, as in vers. 10, 11, 14, 15, the impartiality of God's dealings with all men alike is distinctly declared.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek CircumcisionΠεριτομὴ (Peritomē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4061: Circumcision. From peritemno; circumcision. has value ὠφελεῖ (ōphelei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 5623: To help, benefit, do good, be useful (to), profit. From the same as opheleia; to be useful, i.e. To benefit. if ἐὰν (ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you observe πράσσῃς (prassēs) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4238: To do, perform, accomplish; be in any condition, i.e. I fare; I exact, require. [the] Law, νόμον (nomon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. but δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. if ἐὰν (ean) Conjunction Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc. you ᾖς (ēs) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. break παραβάτης (parabatēs) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3848: A transgressor, law-breaker. From parabaino; a violator. [the] Law, νόμου (nomou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. circumcision περιτομή (peritomē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4061: Circumcision. From peritemno; circumcision. has become γέγονεν (gegonen) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. uncircumcision. ἀκροβυστία (akrobystia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 203: From akron and probably a modified form of posthe; the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised state or person. 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