Romans 2:25–3:9

^25wFor circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. ²⁶Therefore ^xif the uncircumcision keep ^ythe 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, ^zjudge thee, who by ^athe letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? ²⁸For ^bhe is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: ²⁹But he is a Jew, ^cwhich is one inwardly; and ^dcircumcision is that of the heart, ^ein the spirit, and not in ^athe letter; ^fwhose praise is ^gnot of men, but of God.

3What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that ^aunto them were committed ^bthe oracles of God. ³For ^cwhat if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make ^dthe faith of God without effect? ^4eGod forbid: yea, let ^fGod be true, but ^gevery man a liar; as it is written, ^hThat thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. ⁵But if our unrighteousness ⁱcommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? ^k(I speak as a man) ^6eGod forbid: for then ^lhow shall God judge the world? ⁷For if ^mthe truth of God hath more abounded through ^mmy lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) ⁿLet us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? ^oare we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before ^†proved both ^pJews and ^qGentiles, that ^rthey are all under sin;