Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

And Jews Will Be Judged By The Law They Rely Upon

¹⁷ But if you call-yourself a Jew, and rely upon the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things mattering^[a]— being instructed out of the Law— ¹⁹ and are confident as to yourself that you are a guide of blind ones, a light of the ones in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of children, one having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the Law, ²¹ then— the one teaching another, are you not teaching yourself ? The one proclaiming not to steal, do you steal? ²² The one saying not to commit-adultery, do you commit-adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob-temples?

Their Transgression of The Law Dishonors God

²³ You who are boasting in the Law are dishonoring God through transgression of the Law. ²⁴ For “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you”, just as it has been written [in Isa 52:5].

Circumcision Will Not Help Transgressors

²⁵ For circumcision profits if you practice the Law— but if you are a transgressor of the Law your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised one keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcised one by nature who is fulfilling the Law will judge you, the transgressor of the Law with the letter^[b] and circumcision! ²⁸ For the Jew in the visible thing is not a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the visible^[c] thing in the flesh circumcision, ²⁹ but the Jew in the hidden thing is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, by^[d] the Spirit not the letter— whose praise is not from people, but from God.