Romans 2:25–29
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When you read this passage what comes to mind?

Matthew 21:28–31
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If you don’t follow the law what difference is it if you have been circumcised or not?

If you are not acting according to the path of Righteousness what does it matter?

1 Samuel 16:7
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Four things, Paul says, will allow us to recognize a true Jew in God’s sight:
- He does not emphasize outward and external signs (v. 28).
- His heart has been circumcised (revealed before God) (v. 29).
- The Spirit’s knife (“the word of God”; Heb. 4:12) has performed the circumcision on the heart (v. 29).
- God’s praise drowns out the “praise” of men (v. 29). God praising You? Like a good father Praising his child that does what is right.

What distinguishes “insiders” from “outsiders” is not social identity? True “insiders” among God’s people have new hearts “by the Spirit,” and their “praise is not from man but from God.”

Jeremiah 31:33–34
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Bibliography

• W., Jackson. Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul’s Message and Mission. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2019.
• Boa, Kenneth, and William Kruidenier. Romans. Vol. 6. Holman New Testament Commentary. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000.
• Holman Bible Publishers. CSB Disciple’s Study Bible: Notes. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017.
• Barry, John D., Douglas Mangum, Derek R. Brown, Michael S. Heiser, Miles Custis, Elliot Ritzema, Matthew M. Whitehead, Michael R. Grigoni, and David Bomar. Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016.
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