Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
New American Standard Bible
For indeed circumcision is of value if you
King James Version
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Holman Bible
For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
International Standard Version
For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised.
American Standard Version
For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Amplified
Circumcision [the sign of the covenant of Abraham] is indeed of value if you practice the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision [it is meaningless in God’s sight].
An Understandable Version
Now the practice of circumcision [i.e., the Jewish rite of identity, signifying the responsibility to observe the law of Moses] is worthwhile, providing you obey [the rest of] the law of Moses. But if you disobey the law, you might as well have never been circumcised.
Anderson New Testament
Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Bible in Basic English
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
Common New Testament
Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.
Darby Translation
For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Godbey New Testament
For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Goodspeed New Testament
Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.
John Wesley New Testament
Circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Julia Smith Translation
For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
King James 2000
For circumcision verily profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Modern King James verseion
For circumcision truly profits if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Circumcision verily availeth if thou keep the law: But if thou break the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Moffatt New Testament
Circumcision is certainly of use, provided you keep the Law; but if you are a breaker of the Law, then your circumcision is turned into uncircumcision.
Montgomery New Testament
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.
NET Bible
For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
New Heart English Bible
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Noyes New Testament
For circumcision is indeed a benefit to thee, if thou keep the Law; but if thou art a breaker of the Law, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
Sawyer New Testament
For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
The Emphasized Bible
For, circumcision, indeed, profiteth - if, law, thou be practising; but, if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision, hath become, uncircumcision
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For circumcision indeed is advantageous, if thou practise the law: but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision becomes uncircumcision,
Twentieth Century New Testament
Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
Webster
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Weymouth New Testament
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing.
Williams New Testament
Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
World English Bible
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Worrell New Testament
For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you do the law; but, if you are transgressors of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Worsley New Testament
For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Youngs Literal Translation
For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
Themes
Circumcision » Without obedience, vain
Circumcision » Paul's argument against the continuance of
Interlinear
Peritome
περιτομή
Peritome
Usage: 34
Ean
ἐάν
Ean
Usage: 155
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Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 2:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Circumcision Of The Heart
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written. 25 For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6
And LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.
Jeremiah 9:25-26
Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.
Romans 2:23
Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.
Romans 2:28-2
For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh,
Romans 4:11-12
And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them),
Galatians 5:3-6
And I solemnly declare again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to do the whole law.
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 2:11-12
Remember therefore that once ye, the Gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision (in flesh, made by hands),