Romans 2:17-29

17But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

18and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

19and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

21therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

24For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

25For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

27And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

29but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.