Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Holman Bible
Therefore if an uncircumcised
International Standard Version
So if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the Law, his uncircumcision will be regarded as circumcision, won't it?
A Conservative Version
If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision?
American Standard Version
If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
Amplified
So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded [by God] as circumcision?
An Understandable Version
So, if an uncircumcised person [i.e., a Gentile] obeys [the rest of] the requirements of the law, will not the fact that he is not circumcised be considered [by God] as though he were?
Anderson New Testament
If, then, he who is uncircumcised keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Common New Testament
So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Daniel Mace New Testament
if therefore an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral precepts contained in the law, shall not he be reckon'd, as if he were circumcised?
Darby Translation
If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,
Godbey New Testament
Then if uncircumcision may keep the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Goodspeed New Testament
So if people who are uncircumcised observe the requirements of the Law, will they not be treated as though they were circumcised?
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore if uncircumcision watch the justification of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
King James 2000
Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, if the uncircumcised person follows the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision?
Modern King James verseion
If then the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the right things contained in the law: shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Moffatt New Testament
(If then the uncircumcised observe the requirements of the Law, shall not their uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision?
Montgomery New Testament
So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.
NET Bible
Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
New Heart English Bible
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
Noyes New Testament
If then he who is uncircumcised keep the precepts of the Law, shall not he though uncircumcised be regarded as circumcised?
Sawyer New Testament
If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?
The Emphasized Bible
If then, the uncircumcision, be guarding the righteous requirement of the law, shall not, his uncircumcision, as circumcision be reckoned? -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If then the uncircumcision observe the righteous judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?
Twentieth Century New Testament
If, then, an uncircumcised man pays regard to the requirements of the Law, will not he, although not circumcised, be regarded by God as if he were?
Webster
Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Weymouth New Testament
In the same way if an uncircumcised man pays attention to the just requirements of the Law, shall not his lack of circumcision be overlooked, and,
Williams New Testament
So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew?
World English Bible
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Worrell New Testament
If, therefore, the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision he reckoned for circumcision?
Worsley New Testament
Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?
Youngs Literal Translation
If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?
Themes
Circumcision » A seal of righteousness
Interlinear
Akrobustia
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 2:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Circumcision Of The Heart
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? 27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.
Names
Cross References
Romans 8:4
So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
Isaiah 56:6-7
And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Matthew 8:11-12
And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:
Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
Acts 10:2-4
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Acts 10:34-35
Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts 11:3-18
Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.
Romans 3:30
If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
1 Corinthians 7:18-19
If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.
Ephesians 2:11
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;
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
Colossians 2:11
In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;