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Romans 2:19-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

19. and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20. an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

21. you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

22. You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23. You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

24. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

25. For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

26. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

27. Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

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