22. If you say, "No adultery," do you commit adultery? If you hate idols, do you rob temples?
23. If you brag about the Law, do you shame God by breaking the Law?
24. As it is written: The name of God is discredited by the Gentiles because of you.
25. Circumcision is an advantage if you do what the Law says. But if you are a person who breaks the Law, your status of being circumcised has changed into not being circumcised.
26. So if the person who isn’t circumcised keeps the Law, won’t his status of not being circumcised be counted as if he were circumcised?
27. The one who isn’t physically circumcised but keeps the Law will judge you. You became a lawbreaker after you had the written Law and circumcision.
28. It isn’t the Jew who maintains outward appearances who will receive praise from God, and it isn’t people who are outwardly circumcised on their bodies.
29. Instead, it is the person who is a Jew inside, who is circumcised in spirit, not literally. That person’s praise doesn’t come from people but from God.