23. You brag about the law. But when you break it, you rob God of his honor!
24. It is written, "Those who aren't Jews say evil things against God's name because of you." (Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22)
25. Circumcision has value if you obey the law. But if you break the law, it is just as if you hadn't been circumcised.
26. Sometimes those who aren't circumcised do what the law requires. Won't God accept them as if they had been circumcised?
27. Many are not circumcised physically, but they obey the law. They will prove that you are guilty. You are breaking the law, even though you have the written law and are circumcised.
28. A man is not a Jew if he is a Jew only on the outside. And circumcision is more than just something done to the outside of a man's body.