⁴² How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

^17 (A)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, ^(B)blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you ^(C)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and ^(D)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and ^(E)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, ^(F)so that you may see.

⁹ For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he ^(A)is blind, having forgotten that he was ^(B)cleansed from his former sins.

¹⁰ I appeal to you for ^(A)my child, ^(B)Onesimus,^{[a] (C)}whose father I became in my imprisonment. ¹¹ (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)

²¹ Therefore, ^(A)if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable,^[a] he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ^(B)ready for every good work.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and ^(A)God also, ^(B)how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. ¹¹ For you know how, ^(C)like a father with his children, ¹² we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^(D)charged ^(E)you to walk in a manner worthy of God, ^(F)who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹⁸ All this is from God, ^(A)who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us ^(B)the ministry of reconciliation;

^21 (A)you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? ²² You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you ^(B)rob temples? ²³ You who ^(C)boast in the law ^(D)dishonor God by breaking the law. ²⁴ For, ^(E)as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^(F)among the Gentiles because of you.”

²⁵ For circumcision indeed is of value ^(G)if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. ²⁶ So, if ^(H)a man who is uncircumcised keeps ^(I)the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded^[a] as circumcision? ²⁷ Then he who is physically^[b] uncircumcised but keeps the law ^(J)will condemn you who have ^(K)the written code^[c] and circumcision but break the law. ²⁸ For ^(L)no one is a Jew ^(M)who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. ²⁹ But a Jew is one ^(N)inwardly, and ^(O)circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. ^(P)His praise is not from man but from God.