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12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law, 13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God; but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. 14 For when Gentiles, not having the law, may do by nature the things of the law, these not having a law are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also testifying, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending them 16 on the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel through Christ Jesus. 17 But if you are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God, 18 and you know the will and approve the things being superior, being instructed out of the law, 19 and you have persuaded yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth— 21 then you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who are preaching not to steal, do you steal? 22 You who are saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who are abhorring idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law? 24 As it has been written: “For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you?.” 25 For circumcision indeed profits if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? 27 And the uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, will judge you who through the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law. 28 For it is not the one who on the outside is a Jew, nor is that on the outside in flesh circumcision. 29 But a Jew is one on the inside, and circumcision is of heart, in spirit, not in letter, of whom the praise is not of men, but of God. Romans 2:12-29, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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