"Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law (of Moshe given to the sons of Israel) and brag about your relationship to God; if you know his will (because His will is exposed in the 613 commandments) and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law (about who is God and what He wants); if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind (Gentiles without written and oral law), a light for those (sons of Noach) who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish (who don't know which commandments apply to them), a teacher of infants (because they didn't have the revelation in Mount Sinai), because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth (Amen) - you, then, who teach others (because as a Jew, your mission is to teach the Gentiles the path), do you not teach yourself? You who preach (to the Gentiles) against stealing (because it is one of the seven commandments of Noach), do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery (because it is one of the seven commandments), do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols (which is also one of the seven commandments), do you rob temples? You who brag about the law (with gratefulness knowing the responsibility you have before the Eternal and the nations of being a devout and obedient person), do you dishonor God by breaking the law (that is one of the 613 commandments, particularly one of the seven given to all men)? As it is written: "GOD'S NAME IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU" (because a great number of Jews are not practising what they preach), Circumcision has value (because it is a sign of the covenant that you have with the Eternal) if you observe the law (written and oral), but if you break the law (breaking the written Torah explained by the oral one), you have become as though you had not been circumcised (because you are violating the covenant).

"If those who are not circumcised keep the law's requirements (the seven commandments given to them in the time of Noach, not the one that wasn't given to them and does not apply to them), will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised (as if he has been an obedient son of the covenant)? The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law (not the law from Sinai but the one given to him) will condemn you (Jew) who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker (if you don't keep the commandments correctly).

"A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly (because Jewishness doesn't consist of having a sign of the covenant if one does not comply with that covenant), nor is (the spiritual meaning of) circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a (real and complete) Jew if he is one (not only in the flesh but also) inwardly; and circumcision (to which the circumcision in the flesh points and the one that really matters before the Eternal) is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. (And since the word Jew means "one who praises and gives thanks") Such a man's praise is not from men (for fulfilling commandments outwardly before men), but from God (because he does everything with fear of heaven not seeking acknowledgement from men)." (NIV revised)