"Circumcision Of The Heart"

Roman 1

 

¹⁷ Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God, ¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 

 ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 

 ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 

 ²¹ You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 

 ²² You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 


 ²³ You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 

 ²⁴ For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.

Circumcision of No Avail

²⁵ For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 

 ²⁶ Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 

 ²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 

 ²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 

 ²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.