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The Book of Romans, Chapter 2, Verse 26

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For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
King James Version
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
American Standard Version
If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
New English Translation
All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”
World English Bible
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
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And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
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What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
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Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
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God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?