13. For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
14. (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15. in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them)
16. in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Yeshua the Messiah.
17. Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
18. know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
19. and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20. a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
21. You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who proclaim that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
22. You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23. You who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by disobeying the law?
24. For “the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
25. For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26. If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?