Romans 3:1
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
- KJV
- What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
- WEB
- Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
- ASV
- What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
- DARBY
- What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
- BLB
- What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? Or what [is] the profit of the circumcision?
- ÅB
- Hvilket fortrinn har da jøden? Eller hvilket gagn er det i omskjærelsen?
- OTB
- Hvilken fordel har da jøden? Eller hva er nytten av omskjærelsen?
- B1930
- Hvad fortrin har da jøden? eller hvad gagn er det i omskjærelsen?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextGenesis 25:32
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Read in contextHebrews 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextMalachi 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?
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