Romans 2:25 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

English ASV

For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

English Amplified

Circumcision does indeed profit if you keep the Law; but if you habitually transgress the Law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Circumcision does indeed profit if you keep the Law; but if you habitually transgress the Law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

English EASY 2024

As a Jewish man, you are proud that someone has circumcised you. And circumcision does help you, if you obey God's Law in your life. But if you do not obey God's Law, then circumcision is worth nothing. You have become like a Gentile that nobody has ever circumcised.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

If you follow the law, then your circumcision has meaning. But if you break the law, then it is as if you were never circumcised.

For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised.

English God's Word - GW 1995

For example, circumcision is valuable if you follow Moses' laws. If you don't follow those laws, your circumcision amounts to uncircumcision.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

English LSB

For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Circumcision indeed is of value if you keep the law, but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Circumcision, to be sure, has value if you observe the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Circumcision has value if you obey the law. But if you break the law, it is just as if you hadn't been circumcised.

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English NLT

The Jewish ceremony of circumcision is worth something only if you obey God's law. But if you don't obey God's law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

You trust in the covenant sign of circumcision, yet circumcision only has value if you faithfully keep the teachings of the law. But if you violate the law, you have invalidated your circumcision.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Being a Jew is worth something if you obey God's laws; but if you don't, then you are no better off than the heathen.

English Tyndale 1537

Circumcision verily availeth if thou keep the law: But if thou break the law thy circumcision is made(become) uncircumcision.