Romanos 2:25

25 La circuncisión tiene valor si observas la ley; pero si la quebrantas, vienes a ser como un incircunciso.

Romanos 2:25 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 2:25

For circumcision verily profiteth
The plea from circumcision in favour of the Jews, and their acceptance with God, and justification before him, is here, and in the following verses, considered. The apostle allows that circumcision was profitable; which must be understood whilst it was in force, before the abrogation of it, for since, it is not profitable but pernicious; and then it was only profitable, in case the law was kept:

if thou keepest the law;
that is, perfectly; for circumcision obliged persons to keep the whole law. Now the circumcised Jews did not keep it in such sense; wherefore circumcision was of no use to them, but, on the contrary, was an handwriting against them.

But if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made
uncircumcision;
that is, it is not accounted circumcision; it is of no avail; such a man was all one as an uncircumcised Gentile, and appeared to be uncircumcised in a spiritual sense: the apostle perhaps alludes to a practice among some of the Jews, to bring on and draw over the foreskin, after they had been circumcised; (See Gill on 1 Corinthians 7:18).

Romanos 2:25 In-Context

23 Tú que te jactas de la ley, ¿deshonras a Dios quebrantando la ley?

24 Así está escrito: «Por causa de ustedes se blasfema el nombre de Dios entre los gentiles».

25 La circuncisión tiene valor si observas la ley; pero si la quebrantas, vienes a ser como un incircunciso.

26 Por lo tanto, si los gentiles cumplen los requisitos de la ley, ¿no se les considerará como si estuvieran circuncidados?

27 El que no está físicamente circuncidado, pero obedece la ley, te condenará a ti que, a pesar de tener el mandamiento escrito y la circuncisión, quebrantas la ley.