Romans 2:25–3:9

²⁵Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

²⁸For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

²⁹But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Chapter 3

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

³For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

⁴But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

⁶(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

⁸And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.