Romans 2:17–29

¹⁷But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God, ¹⁸and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; ¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: ²¹thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal? ²²thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ²³thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God? ²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written. 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.