15. For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them,
16. unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
17. But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,
18. and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law:
19. you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20. an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law.
21. As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal.
22. You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege.
23. You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.
24. (For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)
25. Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
26. And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision?
27. And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law?