Romans 2:28-3:2 For the real Jew is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, and real circumcision is not outward physical circumcision.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, and real circumcision is not outward physical circumcision. ²⁹ The real Jew is the man who is a Jew on the inside, and real circumcision is heart-circumcision, a spiritual, not a literal, affair. This man's praise originates, not with men, but with God. ³ ¹ What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or, what benefit does circumcision confer? ² They are great from every point of view. In the first place, the Jews are entrusted with the utterances of God.