Romans 2:17-29 ▼

17 Behold, you are named a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,

18 and know the will, and approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the Law,

19 and have confidence that you yourself are a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

20 a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of babies, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the Law.

21 You, then, who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself?

22 You who are preaching not to steal, do you steal? You who are saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who are abhorring the idols, do you rob temples?

23 You who boast in the Law, through the transgression of the Law do you dishonor God?

24 For evil is spoken of the Name of God among the nations because of you, according as it has been written.

25 For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you may practice law, but if you may be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26 If, therefore, the uncircumcision may keep the righteousness of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

27 And the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the Law, will judge you who, through letter and circumcision, [are] a transgressor of law.

28 For he is not a Jew who is [so] outwardly, neither [is] circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

29 but a Jew [is] he who is [so] inwardly, and circumcision [is] of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.