Romans 3:1 KJV
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Scofield Notes
- in the spirit(See Scofield "Rom 7:6").
Matthew Henry
- Objections answeredThe law could not save in or from sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their stated ordinances, education in the knowledge of the...
Thompson Chains
- CircumcisionSee the chain from Genesis 17:10 · 9 links
Cross References
- Genesis 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
- Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
- Isaiah 1:11–15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. …
- Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
- Romans 2:25–29 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. …
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
- Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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Topics
- Bigotry Paul’s argument against
- Boasting Spiritual
- Circumcision Covenant promises of
- Law Temporary
- Rome God’s judgment against all sin
- Sin Paul’s discussion of the responsibility for
- Word of God Unclassified scriptures relating to
Timeline
- Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 60 · The Epistle to the Romans
Bible Dictionary
- JewThe name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah (2...
Strong’s Numbers
- What τίς tís
- advantage περισσός perissós
- then οὖν oûn
- hath the Jew Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaîos
- or ἤ ḗ
- what τίς tís
- profit ὠφέλεια ōphéleia
- of circumcision περιτομή peritomḗ
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