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: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."2 2:24 Isaiah 52:5; Ezek. 36:22 |