Romans 2:25-3:8

New King James Version

Circumcision of No Avail

^25 (A)For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ Therefore, ^(B)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? ²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, ^(C)judge you who, even with your ^[a]written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? ²⁸ For ^(D)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew ^(E)who is one inwardly; and ^(F)circumcision is that of the heart, ^(G)in the Spirit, not in the letter; ^(H)whose ^[b]praise is not from men but from God.

God’s Judgment Defended

3 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? ² Much in every way! Chiefly because ^(I)to them were committed the ^[c]oracles of God. ³ For what if ^(J)some did not believe? ^(K)Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? ^4 (L)Certainly not! Indeed, let ^(M)God be ^[d]true but ^(N)every man a liar. As it is written:

⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? ^(P)(I speak as a man.) ⁶ Certainly not! For then ^(Q)how will God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? ⁸ And why not say, ^(R)“Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their ^[e]condemnation is just.