Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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References
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 shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings. 25 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. 26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:4
Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
Jeremiah 9:25-26
See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;
Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Romans 2:23
You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Romans 2:28-2
The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
Romans 4:11-12
And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
Galatians 5:3-6
Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.
Galatians 6:15
For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
Ephesians 2:11-12
For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;