Romans 2:25-29

Romans 2:25-29

²⁵ 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, 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, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? ²⁸ For 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 who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

Circumcision- the sign of the Abrahamic covenant

Profitable if you keep the law- If the heart matches the actions

circumcision has become uncircumcision- If the inside is not following the law the outside does not matter.

an uncircumcised-a gentile

will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision-will not he be counted righteous.

judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law-Matt 12:41

outwardly- God used circumcision and the law to separate the jews from the gentiles to make them a people unto himself.

Inwardly- it is all about the heart, not the outside.