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But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

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and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth

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thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

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thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

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thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

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For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

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and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

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but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter whose praise is not of men, but of God.