²⁵For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. ²⁶If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision, ²⁷and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, art a law-transgressor? ²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh; ²⁹but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Chapter 3

¹What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision? ²Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. ³For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? ⁴Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment. ⁵But if our unrighteousness commend God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man. ⁶Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world? ⁷For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just. ⁹What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

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