24 For (A)“the name of God is (B)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.

Circumcision of No Avail

25 (C)For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, (D)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a](A)

25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(B) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(C) 26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements,(D) will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22