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23 You are proud of the law but you dishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision is profitable only if you keep the law: but if you break the law, then circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the statutes of the law, behold would not the uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And the uncircumcision which fulfills the law naturally, will condemn you, who, while in possession of the scripture and circumcision, transgress the law. 28 For it is not the one who is outwardly a Jew, who is the real Jew; neither is circumcision that which is seen in the flesh. 29 But a real Jew is one who is inwardly so, and circumcision is of the heart, spiritually and not literally; whose praise is not from men but from God. Romans 2:23-29, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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