^{17 Ref} Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

^{18 Ref} and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

^{19 Ref} and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

^{20 Ref} a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

^{21 Ref} You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

^{22 Ref} You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

^{23 Ref} You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

^{24 Ref} For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

^{25 Ref} For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

^{26 Ref} If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

^{27 Ref} Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

^{28 Ref} For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

^{29 Ref} but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.