Romans 3:1 Cross References - CAB

¹ What then is the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and for what good does this birthright belong to me?

⁸ For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life?

¹¹ For there are many things which increase vanity. What advantage has a man?

¹¹ Of what value to Me is the abundance of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats; ¹² neither shall you come with these to appear before Me; for who has required these things at your hands? You shall no more tread My court. ¹³ Though you bring fine flour, it is futile; incense is an abomination to Me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day; ¹⁴ your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts My soul hates; you have become loathsome to Me; I will no more pardon your sins. ¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁴ You said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept His ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

²⁵ For indeed circumcision profits if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ Therefore, if a Gentile keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written code and circumcision, a transgressor of the law? ²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew that is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.

³² If, in the manner of men, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

⁹ Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good for the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.