Romans 2:25 Cross References

Romans 2:25

25: The Jewish ceremony of circumcision is worth something only if you obey God's law. But if you don't obey God's law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.

Jeremiah 4:4

  1. Cleanse your minds and hearts before the LORD, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.

Deuteronomy 30:6

  1. "The LORD your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!

Acts 7:51

  1. "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!

Galatians 5:3

  1. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey all of the regulations in the whole law of Moses.
  2. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.
  3. But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive everything promised to us who are right with God through faith.
  4. For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.

Jeremiah 9:25

  1. "A time is coming," says the LORD, "when I will punish all those who are circumcised in body but not in spirit--
  2. the Egyptians, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, the people who live in distant places, and yes, even the people of Judah. Like all these pagan nations, the people of Israel also have uncircumcised hearts."

Galatians 6:15

  1. It doesn't make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people.

Romans 2:23

  1. You are so proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it.

Romans 2:28

  1. For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the Jewish ceremony of circumcision.
  2. No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not a cutting of the body but a change of heart produced by God's Spirit. Whoever has that kind of change seeks praise from God, not from people.
  3. Then what's the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the Jewish ceremony of circumcision?
  4. Yes, being a Jew has many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.

Ephesians 2:11

  1. Don't forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders by birth. You were called "the uncircumcised ones" by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts.
  2. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Romans 4:11

  1. The circumcision ceremony was a sign that Abraham already had faith and that God had already accepted him and declared him to be righteous--even before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who have faith but have not been circumcised. They are made right with God by faith.
  2. And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumcised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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