Lamsa(i)
17 Now if you who are called a Jew, trust on the law and are proud of God,
18 And because you know his will, and know the things which must be observed, which you have learned from the law,
19 And you have confidence in yourself that you are a guide of the blind and a light to them who are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, you are the semblance of knowledge and of truth as embodied in the law.
21 Now, therefore, you teach others but fail to teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, yet you steal.
22 You say, Men must not commit adultery, yet you commit adultery. You despise idols, yet you rob the sanctuary.
23 You are proud of the law but you dishonor God by breaking the law.
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision is profitable only if you keep the law: but if you break the law, then circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the statutes of the law, behold would not the uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And the uncircumcision which fulfills the law naturally, will condemn you, who, while in possession of the scripture and circumcision, transgress the law.
28 For it is not the one who is outwardly a Jew, who is the real Jew; neither is circumcision that which is seen in the flesh.
29 But a real Jew is one who is inwardly so, and circumcision is of the heart, spiritually and not literally; whose praise is not from men but from God.