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The Law, True Circumcision, and Jewish Identity

Romans 2:17-29

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Chapter 2
17 But if you are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God 18 and you know his will and approve the things that differ, being instructed from the Law, 19 and you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20 an instructor of fools, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the Law— 21 Therefore, the one teaching another—do you not teach yourself? The one proclaiming not to steal—do you steal? 22 You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples? 23 Who boast in the Law but through the transgression of the Law dishonor God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written. 25 Circumcision indeed profits if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? 27 And the uncircumcised by nature, if he practices the Law, will judge you who have the Law in letter and circumcision but are a transgressor of it. 28 For the one who is manifest is not a Jew, nor is the one whose circumcision is manifest in the flesh. 29 But the one in the hidden place is a Jew, and circumcision of heart in spirit, not letter, whose praise is not from humans but from God.