Romans 2:13–25

¹³for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified: ¹⁴(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves; ¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them); ¹⁶in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, ¹⁸and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, ²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; ²¹thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ²²thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples? ²³thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? ²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written. ²⁵For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.