Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
New American Standard Bible
For indeed circumcision is of value if you
King James Version
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Holman Bible
For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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.
A Conservative Version
For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy 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.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
Now the practice of circumcision [i.e., the Jewish rite of identity, signifying the responsibility to observe the law of Moses] is worthwhile, providing you obey [the rest of] the law of Moses. But if you disobey the law, you might as well have never been circumcised.
Anderson New Testament
Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Bible in Basic English
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
Common New Testament
Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Daniel 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.
Darby Translation
For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become 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.
Goodspeed New Testament
Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.
John Wesley New Testament
Circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Julia Smith Translation
For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
King James 2000
For circumcision verily profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Modern King James verseion
For circumcision truly profits if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Circumcision verily availeth if thou keep the law: But if thou break the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Moffatt New Testament
Circumcision is certainly of use, provided you keep the Law; but if you are a breaker of the Law, then your circumcision is turned into uncircumcision.
Montgomery New Testament
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is 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.
Noyes New Testament
For circumcision is indeed a benefit to thee, if thou keep the Law; but if thou art a breaker of the Law, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
Sawyer New Testament
For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
The Emphasized Bible
For, circumcision, indeed, profiteth - if, law, thou be practising; but, if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision, hath become, uncircumcision
Thomas 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,
Twentieth Century New Testament
Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
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.
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Circumcision » Without obedience, vain
Circumcision » Paul's argument against the continuance of
Interlinear
Peritome
περιτομή
Peritome
Usage: 34
Ean
ἐάν
Ean
Usage: 155
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Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 2:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Circumcision Of The Heart
24 For just as it is written, "the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." 25 For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:4
Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment, you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done."
Deuteronomy 30:6
The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
Jeremiah 9:25-26
The Lord says, "Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.
Acts 7:51
"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!
Romans 2:28-2
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,
Romans 4:11-12
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
Galatians 5:3-6
And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!
Ephesians 2:11-12
Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh -- who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands --