Discovery BoxRomans 2:25 
Context2:25 For circumcision 1 has its value if you practice the law, but 2 if you break the law, 3 your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 6:9
Context6:9 We know 4 that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die 5 again; death no longer has mastery over him.
Romans 11:1
Context11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
1 sn Circumcision refers to male circumcision as prescribed in the OT, which was given as a covenant to Abraham in Gen 17:10-14. Its importance for Judaism can hardly be overstated: According to J. D. G. Dunn (Romans [WBC], 1:120) it was the “single clearest distinguishing feature of the covenant people.” J. Marcus has suggested that the terms used for circumcision (περιτομή, peritomh) and uncircumcision (ἀκροβυστία, akrobustia) were probably derogatory slogans used by Jews and Gentiles to describe their opponents (“The Circumcision and the Uncircumcision in Rome,” NTS 35 [1989]: 77-80).
2 tn This contrast is clearer and stronger in Greek than can be easily expressed in English.
3 tn Grk “if you should be a transgressor of the law.”
4 tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5 tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).
