17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if
you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to 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 infants, 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 brag about the law, do you
dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 As it is written [in Isaiah 52:5 and
Ezekiel 36:22]: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of
you."
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