But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

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

For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.