2020 for JESUS - Day 235: JESUS is GOD...

Romans 2:17-29

The Jews and the Law

^17 “Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in GOD; 

¹⁸ if you know HIS will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 

¹⁹ if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 

²¹ you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself?

You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 

²² You who say that people should not commit adultery,

do you commit adultery?

You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 

²³ You who boast in the law, do you dishonor GOD by breaking the law? 

²⁴ As it is written:

‘GOD’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’

²⁵ Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. 

²⁶ So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? 

²⁷ The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

²⁸ A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 

²⁹ No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly;

and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by THE SPIRIT, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from GOD.”