What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?
What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches12
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
When Jesus heard this, He marveled at the centurion. Turning to the crowd following Him, He said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.”
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
12 more linked verses are grouped by book below ↓
Every other verse the study tradition links to this one, in the Bible’s own order. The first links in each book carry a line of their text; every reference opens its full verse page.
Ecclesiastes1
Song of Solomon1
Isaiah3
1 Corinthians1
Cross-references are drawn from classic Bible study tools and open, shareable Bible data.
Voices4
After showing that Judaism, which involved receiving the law and circumcision, is not sufficient for salvation without the law's observance, through which the gentile without external Judaism and circumcision obtains the fruit of each, he now objects to his own doctrine: first, he presents the …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Romans, 1274patristic
What advantage then hath the Jew?.... 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?
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
What advantage ... - The design of the first part of this chapter is to answer some of the objections which might be offered by a Jew to the statements in the last chapter. The first objection is stated in this verse. A Jew would naturally ask, if the view which the apostle had given were correct, what special benefit could the Jew derive from his religion? The objection would arise particularly from the position advanced Rom 2:25-26, that if a pagan should do the things required by the Law, he would be treated as if he had been circumcised.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
What then, may some say, is the advantage of the Jew, or of the circumcision - That is, those that are circumcised, above the gentiles?
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755evangelical
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Hebrews 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to…
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Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord…
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Genesis 25:32“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
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For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
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Ecclesiastes 6:8What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
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Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
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