Romans 2:17-29 If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God, ¹⁸ understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law ¹⁹ and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls, ²⁰ a tutor for the foolish, a teacher of the simple, because in the Law you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth — ²¹ well then, do you ever teach yourself, you teacher of other people? You preach against stealing; do you steal? ²² You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples? ²³ You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law? ²⁴ Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says! ²⁵ Circumcision is certainly of use, provided you keep the Law; but if you are a breaker of the Law, then your circumcision is turned into uncircumcision. ²⁶ (If then the uncircumcised observe the requirements of the Law, shall not their uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision? ²⁷ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised and who fulfil the Law, judge you who are a breaker of the Law for all your written code and circumcision?) ²⁸ He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh; ²⁹ he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual not literal — praised by God, not by man.