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16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.(A)

The Jews and the Law

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God(B) 18 and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,(C) 21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(D) 22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(E)

25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.(F) 26 So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

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  1. 2.24 Or despised