Etheridge(i)
17 But if thou (who) a Jihudoya art called, and reposest on the law, and boastest in Aloha,
18 because thou knowest his will, and distinguishest the things that are fitting, because thou art learned from the law;
19 and confidest upon thyself that thou art a guide of the blind, and a light to those who are in darkness,
20 and an instructor of the wanting-in-mind, and a teacher of children, and hast a type of knowledge and of truth in the law:
21 Thou, then, who teachest others, dost thou not teach thyself? and who preachest that men should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 and who sayest they should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who condemnest idols, dost thou despoil the sanctuary?[The house of holiness.]
23 And thou who boastest of the law, in this that thou transgressest against the law, Aloha himself despisest thou?
24 For the name of Aloha through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.
25 For circumcision profiteth, if thou accomplish the law; but if thou transgress the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcisedness.
26 But if the uncircumcision shall keep the commandment of the law, is not uncircumcisedness reckoned to him (as) circumcision?
27 And the uncircumcision, who by nature accomplishes the law will judge thee, who with the scripture and with circumcision, transgressest against the law.
28 FOR it is not in outwardness that he is a Jihudoya nor is that which is seen in the flesh circumcision:
29 but he is a Jihudoya who is one in inwardness; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from the sons of men, but from Aloha.