13. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.
14. For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.
15. They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,
16. on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
17. But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God
18. and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,
19. and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20. an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –
21. therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
22. You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23. You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!