Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Romans 3:1

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

KJV

Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς;

Greek NT

Quid ergo amplius Judæo est ? aut quæ utilitas circumcisionis ?

Vulgate

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

ASV

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
περισσός
perissos
adjective · 13×
περιτομή
peritome
noun · 36×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὠφέλεια
opheleia
noun · 2×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210206.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 7:23 — And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy lan
  • Eccl 6:8 — For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
  • Eccl 6:11 — Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
  • Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Gen 25:32 — And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
  • Isa 40:8 — The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
  • John 4:22 — Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
  • John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Luke 7:9 — When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Rom 2:14 — For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
  • Rom 2:25 — For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
  • Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
  • Rom 9:14 — What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.