Circumcision of the Heart

Truth, Conscience, and the Heart · Romans 2

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. External circumcision has value with obedience, but transgression empties the sign. Paul locates true Jewish identity inwardly and speaks of circumcision of the heart by the Spirit, whose praise comes from God.

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25Circumcision indeed is beneficial if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26So then, if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27And the uncircumcised person by nature, if he fulfills the law, will judge you who, with the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.

28For a Jew is not one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward in the flesh;

29But the Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—by the Spirit, not by the letter—whose praise is not from people but from God.

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