⁴² How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

²¹ you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?^{(A) 22} You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?^{(B) 23} You who boast in the law,^(C) do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ²⁴ As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”^[a](D)

²⁵ Circumcision has value if you observe the law,^(E) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.^{(F) 26} So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements,^(G) will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?^{(H) 27} The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you^(I) who, even though you have the^[b] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

²⁸ A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,^(J) nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.^{(K) 29} No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,^(L) by the Spirit,^(M) not by the written code.^(N) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.^(O)

¹⁰ You are witnesses,^(A) and so is God,^(B) of how holy,^(C) righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. ¹¹ For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,^{(D) 12} encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy^(E) of God, who calls^(F) you into his kingdom and glory.

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

¹³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!^(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.^{(B) [14] [a]}

¹⁵ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert,^(C) and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell^(D) as you are.

⁹ But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind,^(A) forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.^(B)

¹⁰ that I appeal to you for my son^(A) Onesimus,^[a](B) who became my son while I was in chains.^{(C) 11} Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

²¹ Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.^(A)