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The Book of Romans, Chapter 2, Verse 28

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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?
King James Version
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
American Standard Version
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
New English Translation
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
World English Bible
For he is not a Jew who 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?
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And not [rather], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
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What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;