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17 Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, and makest thy boast of God,
18 and knowest his wyll, and alowest the thynges that be excellent, and art infourmed by the lawe:
19 and beleuest that thou thy selfe art a gyde of the blynde, a lyght of them which are in darcknes,
20 an infourmer of them which lacke discrecyon, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast that ensample of knowledge, & of the truthe by the lawe.
21 Thou therfore which teachest another, teachest not thy selfe Thou preachest, a man shulde not steale: yet thou stealest.
22 Thou that sayst, a man shuld not commyt aduoutry, breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages, and yet robbest God of his honoure.
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the lawe, thorow breakynge the lawe dishonourest God.
24 For the name of God is euyll spoken of amonge the Gentyls, thorow you as it is wrytten.
25 For circumcisyon verely auayleth, yf thou kepe the lawe. But yf thou be a breaker of the lawe, thy circumcisyon is turned to vncircumcisyon.
26 Therfore, yf the vncircumcised kepe the ryght thynges contayned in the lawe, shall not his vncircumcisyon be counted for circumcisyon?
27 And shall not vncircumcisyon which is by nature (yf it kepe the lawe) iudge the, whych beynge vnder the letter and circumcisyon, doest transgresse the lawe?
28 He is not a Iewe, which is a Iewe outwarde. Nether is it circumcisyon, which is outwarde in the flesshe.
29 But he is a Iewe which his hyd wythin, and the circumcisyon of the herte is the true circumcisyon, whych consisteth in the sprete and not in the letter: whose prayse is not of men, but of God.