Romans 2:17-29 (2:7) But what if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,

Sawyer⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ ^(2:7) But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law, ¹⁹ and believe yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law; ²¹ you that teach another, do you not teach yourself? You that preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege? ²³ You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God? ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written. ²⁵ ^(2:8) For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. ²⁶ If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law. ²⁸ For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision. ²⁹ But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.