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Romans 2:25 KJV
Romans · chapter 2 · verse 25
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.Romans 2:25 · King James Version
Romans 2:25 in context
23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- circumcisionperitomēcircumcised, the act or rite of circumcision, " they of the circumcision" is a…G4061 →
- profitethōpheleōto assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profitG5623 →
- breakerparabatēsa transgressor, a lawbreakerG3848 →
- verilymentruly, certainly, surely, indeedG3303 →
- keepprassōto exercise, practise, to be busy with, carry on, to undertake, to do, to accomplish…G4238 →
- madeginomaito becomeG1096 →
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In the latter part of the chapter the apostle directs his discourse more closely to the Jews, and shows what sins they were guilty of, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. He had said (Rom 2:13) that not the hearers but the doers of the law are justified;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-29