Circumcision of the Heart

25 For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.(A)

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25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(A) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(B)

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27 A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you(A) who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

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27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you(A) who, even though you have the[a] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

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  1. Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a

But if you show favoritism,(A) you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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But if you show favoritism,(A) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.(B)

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11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery,[a] also said, Do not murder.(A)[b] So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

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11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”[a](A) also said, “You shall not murder.”[b](B) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18
  2. James 2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17