Romans 2:17-29 Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God, ¹⁸ and understand His will, and by being instructed in the law can know the things that excel, ¹⁹ and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ a tutor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, since you have a knowledge of the truth as formulated in the law -- ²¹ you who teach others, do you not teach yourself too? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal yourself? ²² You who warn men to stop committing adultery, do you practice it yourself? You who shrink in horror from idols, do you rob their temples? ²³ You who boast about the law, do you by breaking it dishonor God? ²⁴ For, as the Scripture says, the name of God is abused among the heathen because of you. ²⁵ Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew? ²⁷ And shall not the heathen man who is physically uncircumcised, and yet observes the law, condemn you who have the letter of the law and are physically circumcised, and yet break the law? ²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, and real circumcision is not outward physical circumcision. ²⁹ The real Jew is the man who is a Jew on the inside, and real circumcision is heart-circumcision, a spiritual, not a literal, affair. This man's praise originates, not with men, but with God.