But while they boast about the law, this has only drawn more attention to their failure to obey it. By boasting and not following it, they end up bringing shame on God: “As it is written: ‘God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you’” (Rom 2:24). Paul concludes that circumcision (the law) only “has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though
