Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Advantage
General references
Bible References
Advantage
Romans 2:25
For circumcision verily profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Genesis 25:32
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point of death: and what profit shall this birthright be to me?
Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?
Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been observing them.
General references
Isaiah 40:21
Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?