Devine Scripture

Romans 2:27

Romans chapter 2 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

Context

v.26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

v.27This passage

v.28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 13:10

    Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

  • Romans 2:29

    but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Matthew 12:41

    The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

  • Ezekiel 16:48

    As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

  • Romans 2:20

    a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

  • Matthew 5:17

    Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.