Romans 2:17–29

¹⁷But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:

¹⁹Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

²¹Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

²²Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

²³Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

²⁴(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

²⁵Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

²⁸For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

²⁹But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.