Compare Different Versions of this Verse. Or what is the benefit of circumcision? God had promised by covenant that they should have those privileges and they did enjoy them. Not at all! The Heidelberg Catechism teaches that true conversion consists of these two parts: the dying of the old man, and the rising again of the new. If he is not properly a Jew, who is born of Jewish parents, and brought up in the customs, rites, and religion of the Jewish nation, but anyone of whatsoever nation, that is born again of water, and of the Spirit where is the superior excellency of the Jew to the Gentile? Romans 3 - What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Nor by any works of law, or works of any kind, performed in your own strength, irrespective of the grace of God. But there are, who, being utterly ignorant of the law of God, account not evil lusts among their enemies, and through wretched blindness being slaves to them, over and above think themselves also blessed, by satisfying them rather than taming them.

Else how could it arise? Augustine-On Continence, Sanctification. 'Ah,' saith he to himself, 'God is a just God and if so, how can he pardon my sins? They had a revelation and a light divine, while all the world, WHEN THE SOUL is seriously impressed with the conviction of its guilt, when terror and alarm get hold upon it concerning the inevitable consequences of its sin, the soul is afraid of God. Nor by any works of law, or works of any kind, performed in your own strength, irrespective of the grace of God. The foregoing illustrations shed unexpected light upon the fact that God justifies the ungodly, and not him who is actually just in himself and upon the word of Christ: 'Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.' Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular. 3 For what if some did not believe? Romans 2:25-29 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision…. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

This is one of the 'contradictions in the Bible' to which infidels appeal in support of their unbelief.

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