²⁴ But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to ^(A)the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

^22 (A)You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^(B)salvation is from the Jews.

⁴⁶ Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you ^(A)first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, ^(B)we are turning to the Gentiles.

¹⁶ For I am not ^(A)ashamed of the gospel, for ^(B)it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^(C)Jew first and also to ^(D)the Greek.

⁹ There will be ^(A)affliction and turmoil ^[a]for every soul of man who works out evil, of the Jew ^(B)first and also of the Greek, ¹⁰ but ^(C)glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, to the Jew ^(D)first and also to the Greek. ¹¹ For ^(E)there is no partiality with God.

¹² For all who have sinned ^[b](F)without the Law will also perish ^[c]without the Law, and all who have sinned ^[d]under the Law will be judged ^[e]by the Law. ¹³ For it is ^(G)not the hearers ^[f]of the Law who are ^[g]just before God, but the doers ^[h]of the Law will be justified. ¹⁴ For when Gentiles who do not have ^[i]the Law ^(H)naturally do the things of the Law, these, not having ^[j]the Law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ in that they demonstrate ^(I)the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, ¹⁶ on the day when, ^(J)according to my gospel, ^(K)God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.

The Jew Is Judged by the Law

¹⁷ But if you bear the name “Jew” and ^(L)rely ^[k]upon the Law and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know His will and ^[l](M)approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰ a ^[m]corrector of the foolish, a teacher of ^[n]the immature, having in the Law ^(N)the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, ²¹ you, therefore, ^(O)who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who ^[o]preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? ²² You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you ^(P)rob temples? ²³ You who ^(Q)boast ^[p]in the Law, through your transgression of the Law, do you dishonor God? ²⁴ For “^(R)the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles ^(S)because of you,” just as it is written.

²⁵ For indeed circumcision is of value if you ^(T)practice ^[q]the Law, but if you are a transgressor ^[r]of the Law, ^(U)your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ^26 (V)So if ^(W)the ^[s]uncircumcised man ^(X)observes the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? ²⁷ And ^(Y)he who is physically uncircumcised, if he ^[t]fulfills the Law, will he not ^(Z)judge you who, through the letter of the Law and circumcision, are a transgressor ^[u]of the Law? ²⁸ For ^(AA)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But ^(AB)he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and ^(AC)circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the ^(AD)Spirit, not by the letter; ^(AE)and his praise is not from men, but from God.