23 Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God![a] 24 For just as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[b]

25 For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:23 Or “do you dishonor God?” (a number of translators and interpreters take this phrase as a final rhetorical question; the present translation regards it as a final summary statement to be taken ironically)
  2. Romans 2:24 A quotation from Isa 52:5