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You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?
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For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written.
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For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
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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?
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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;
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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.