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The Book of Romans, Chapter 2, Verse 29

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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
New English Translation
“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
World English Bible
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from 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;
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As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: