God's Judgment and the Law
Therefore
if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not
his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? Rom 2:26
shall
not his...
Questions 8-9. Next, Rom. 3:1.
If
those who are not circumcised (lit., “if the foreskin,” a word
used by Jews as a slang expression for a Gentile; cf. the comments on
Rom. 2:25) keep (phyllasē,
“guard” and therefore “keep” or “observe”; cf. 1Tim.
5:21) the Law’s requirements (and apparently some Gentiles did),
will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
God will regard the believing Gentile as favorably as a circumcised, believing Jew.
Colossians 3:11 "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all."
The circumcision that counts is of the heart and not of the flesh. God is not interested in our flesh. He is Spirit and He is interested in our spirit which is made in His image.
Matthew 6:28-34 "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:" "And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith?" "Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" "(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things." "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof."
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