DEAD EYE. GOLD GHOST. SWARM. TOP SPOOK REQUESTED PERSONNA--I HAVE TO BEAT ALL THE MINI-ME'S TO BE ME AGAIN, MALE AND FEMALE! LEGIONS OF SWINE! SOUL BOARD. VANITY FAIR. EATON. CATLIN. FROM A LITTLE GREEN TO LEGENDARY! I'M SPECIAL, SO SPECIAL . . . GOTTA HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION! GONNA USE MY LEGS, GONNA USE MY ARMS, GONNA USE MY STYLE, MY IMAGINATION . . . YOU'RE NEVER GONNA SEE SOMEBODY LIKE ME . . . I'M SPECIAL! IT'S SO EASY TO FALL IN LOVE . . . OH, OH, OH, IT'S SO EASY--TO FALL IN LOVE! HE'S EVERYTHING YOU WANT. HE'S EVERYTHING YOU NEED. HE'S EVERYTHING YOU LIKE. HE SAYS ALL THE RIGHT THINGS . . . I'M EVERYTHING YOU WANT; I'M EVERYTHING YOU NEED; I'M EVERYTHING YOU LIKE . . . I SAY ALL THE RIGHT THINGS! PUT THAT BODY CRUSH ON ME! DEPENDS ON WHICH SONG OR WHICH GUY IS INFRONT OF ME AS TO WHOM, I LIKE, SOMETIMES EVEN LOVE! SO, I GET ON BUS #1 INBOUND, TO THE TRANSIT CENTER, ROUGHLY ABOUT, 4:30 PM-ISH, AND, A DUDE FROM THE POVERELLO HOMELESS CENTER, GETS ON THE BUS, AND FOLLOWING HIM, MR. HOT CONSTRUCTION WORKER! PUT THAT CRUISH ON ME . . . PERFECT BODY, DON'T KNOW HIM WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW IF HE IS EVERYTHING I NEEDS, BUT, BY THE LOOKS OF HIM, HE COULD MAKE ME REAL HAPPY FOR AT LEAST ONE NIGHT! LOL. 29 FOREVER. SMILE. SO, I WATCH, MR. POV. GIVE THE DUDE A HUG, AND MR. HOT HARDHAT, LOOKING AT MY SLIGHT CLEAVAGE, LOL, ASKS IF THIS POV GUY IS STILL AT THE POV? I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR, YEARS! I COME AND GO, SO, I KNOW . . . AS I AM LOOKING AT HIS TATTOO, SORT OF A LARGE LIGHTNING STRIKE ON THE INSIDE OF HIS RIGHT ARM, I BELIEVE, NICEST ARMS, AND I AM TRYING TO LOOK AT HIM UNDER MY BALL CAP DUCK BILL--ALWAYS CONVENIENT COVER, SO HE CAN'T SEE ME CHECKING HIM OUT! LOL. SO, MISSOULA HAS A FEW MEN WHO RIVAL WASHINGTON STATE GUYS! YEAH! GOOD! I'M A CITY/COUNTRY GIRL, BUT A LITTLE MORE COUNTRY! SO, WHEN I GET BACK TO THE POV., I AM GOING TO ASK, MR. POV. WHO MR. HOT IS. SO, POV DUDE COMES WALKING UP TO ME AND ASKS IF I WANT A HUG? NO, BUT I DO WHAT A HUG FROM THE DUDE YOU WERE SITTING NEXT TO ON THE BUS THIS AFTERNOON. WHO IS HE? I WASN'T ON THE BUS. YOU WERE TOO! YOU HAD A BLACK PLASTIC GARBAGE BAG, AND SAT NEXT TO THE GUY, WHO LOOKED LIKE HE JUST GOT OFF WORK AT THE NEW LIBRARY. NO, I WAS NOT ON THE BUS. I DIDN'T TALK TO ANYONE. THE DUDE WITH THE MATERIAL LUNCH PAIL--BLACK & WHITE--COP--HONEY TRAP? NO, I WAS NEVER ON THE BUS. WHAT THE HELL, I HAVE KNOWN YOU, AND YOU WERE ON THE FUCKING BUS! NO, I WAS NOT. DO YOU EVER WONDER, HOW, THE GIRLZ AND BOYZ, COP CLUBS, MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, GETS AWAY WITH ALL THEIR SHIT, LIES, LIES, LIES, AND LIARS! SHE'S CRAZY, I WAS NEVER ON THE BUS. THEN, THEY WILL DUB RACHEL, OR KAY, OR SHELLEY, INTO THE BUS SCENE, AND SUBSTITUTE THE VIDEO TAPE OF THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, AND THAT WILL BE PRESERVED FOR ALL HISTORY, FOREVER! GAMES. LASER SHOWS. DRAMA. LIPTRIX. FRAUD BROADS AND BOWLING ALLEY BITCHES! WHATEVER. SO, YESTERDAY, MR. HOT OLDER COWBOY, TWO TIMES WORLD CHAMPION, RODEO STAR, BACK IN THE 90'S, WORKS TRACKING FOR THE U.S. MARSHALS, COMES WALKING IN THE POV. I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU! I THOUGHT HE WAS THERE BECAUSE HE HEARD I WAS IN TOWN . . . THAT WOULD BE TOO OBVIOUS, SO, HE COVERED WITH, PICKING UP, SOME POV. DUDE, HIS RANCH BOSS, JUST GAVE A JOB TOO. HOW, CONVENIENT. WE TALKKED, I WANTED TO TAKE A SUNDAY RIDE, ALWAYS LIKED HIM, BUT LAST I SAW HIM, HE LOOKED LIKE AND I TOLD HIM, HE WOULD LIKELY BE DEAD, NEXT TIMEI WAS IN TOWN! LOL. HE WAS SHOCKED, AND, GOT PISSED THAT I WOULD SAY THAT! LOL. EGO! HE IS 6 MONTHS YOUNGER THAN I AM! PRETTY BEAT UP THOUGH! HIS ROD IN HIS BACK WAS KILLING HIM, AND HIS FAKE ANKLE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS FOOT, LAST WE TALKED . . . DON'T NEED A PROJECT, NOR TO NURSE A SENIOR CITIZENS, EVEN IF I AM ONE! LOL. MY GRANDPA, GAVE A TALK ON TIME AT A NURSING HOME, IN LOGAN, UTAH, I THINK, AND I WAS SITTING NEXT TO MY GRANDMA, FEISTY, AND HOT TEMPERED, WHERE I PROBABLY GET MY PISS AND VINEGAR FROM . . . SHE TURNS TO ME AND SAYS, LOOK AT ALL THESE OLD PEOPLE! I AM SURE SHE WAS AS OLD IF NOT OLDER AT THAT TIME! LOL. THEM SHE POINTED OUT THAT SHE WAS SITTING IN A CHAIR WITH A TOILET, ATTACHED TO THE SEAT PART OF THE WHEELCHAIR . . . SHE SAYS, DISGUSTING! I ALMOST BURST A GUT! IT'S SO EASY TO FALL IN LOVE! LOL. SO COWBOY, RODEO STAR, TAKES ME UP TO ARLEE, WHERE HE JUST BOUGHT A SMALL 25 ACRE RANCH, SHOWS ME THE HOUSE, VERY NICE, MASSIVE BARN, GIVE ME A DETOUR OF THE 3RD RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD'S, HOME AND HOLDINGS, HIS COMPANY JUST FINISHED THE RUSSELL STREET BRIDGE IN TOWN, HEAVY EQUIPTMENT, RANCHES, HUCKLEBERRY INN, DOWNTOWN, ARLEE, THEN, HE TAKES ME TO THE NEW TRAILER, WELL, OLD NEW TRAILER, HE BOUGHT JUST FOR, THE 60 DAYS HE CAN'T GET IN HIS NEW RANCH HOUSE . . . RIGHT OUT THE MOVIES, COWBOY'S TRAILER! PERFECT, SADDLE, SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO THE DOOR, WESTERN COWBOY MAGAZINE ON THE COUCH, COOKS ME UP A RIGHT FINE MEAL, OF BAKED POTATOES, TWO PORK ROASTS, OFF THE HOG SLAUGHTERED ON THE RANCH, CORN, V-8 JUICE, COOKIES, ICE CREAM . . . AND A COZY AFTERNOON, ON THE RANCH WITH OPEN RANGE CATTLE BELLOWING IN THE BACKGROUND, AS THE HEAT WAS ON, DOOR OPEN, SCREEN DOOR REVEALING THE THREATENING WEATHER OUTSIDE . . . I COULD GET USED TO THE FUCKING TRAILER! WATCHED A GOOD, WESTERN MOVIE WITH TOM SELLECK, AND MARK HARMON, FIGHTING OVER THE SAME WOMAN, AND HER OIL RICH, LAND! PERFECT AFTERNOON . . . HE LIVES THIS EVERYDAY! WE TALKED OF MOUNTAIN LIONS, BEAR STORIES, TRUE CRIME, BACK WOODS, KILLERS, SOME POLITICS, BUT NOT, TOO MUCH, HE ASKED IF I WAS A DEMOCRAT? WELL, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ATTORNEYS, CAN SWING BOTH WAYS, BUT I LEAN TOWARD THE LEFT, BUT THE RIGHT WANTS TO CLAIM ME TOO, WHEN, I AM ON THEIR SIDE! I BELIEVE IN ABORTION AND GUN RIGHTS! MY CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS THINK I AM TOO CONSERVATIVE, AND MY LIBERAL FRIENDS THINK I AM TOO CONSERVATIVE . . . I AM WHEREVER THE CONSTITUTION, DICTATES, I BE! 98% OF WE THE PEOPLE, BELIEVE IN THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND, AS I DO, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, WHICH EVER SIDE OF THE AISLE YOU ARE ON, UNLESS, YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN IN THE LAST, 2 OR 3 YEARS, THEN, YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL, TRUMP! HE IS A LIFETIME REPUBLICAN, AND PISSED ABOUT, CATTLE PRICES, FALLING TO 98 CENTS, PER POUND! WHY ARE WE BUYING BEEF FROM CHINA AND BRAZIL, WHEN WE HAVE SO MUCH, EVEN HERE IN MONTANA? I DIDN'T MAKE THE TRADE DEALS! WHO KNOWS, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME EITHER. ANYWAY, WONDERFUL AFTERNOON, AND, THE LAST THOUGHT ON MY MIND, OR IMAGE IN MY MIND, WAS, COWBOY, TAKING ME OVER TO A HORSE, A BLACK AND WHITE, PAINT, AND, SAYING, I KNOW THE PERFECT HORSE FOR YOU . . . PERFECT GRANDPA MATERIAL, TOO! HE TOLD ME HE USED TO HAVE 21 INCH, ARMS, DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM THE LAST FEW YEARS . . . I USED TO HAVE A 19 INCH WAIST TOO! WE ARE GETTING OLD! LOL. I AM TWICE THE GAL I USED TO BE, THANKS TO THE BLACKS & WHITES! HAVE NO FEAR . . . I HAVE A GOOD, 3 MONTHS WORK STILL, TO EVEN BE, MAKE OUT, READY! LOL. I HAVE READ IN MALE MUSCLE MAGAZINES, THAT THERE IS NO REASON, A 73 YEARS OLD MALE, CAN'T HAVE THE SAME MUSCLE MASS, AS HE HAD IN HIS 30'S! LIFETIME FITNESS. HAMMER STRENGTH. I AM PROBABLY, STRONGER THAN I WAS IN MY 30'S! THE UPSIDE OF BEING CHASED, NON-STOP FOR THE LAST, 7 YEARS, FAT! LOL. MUSCLE BURNS FAT, SO, LIKE MOST MALES, I CAN BURN FAT FAST, THAT IS WHY, FORMER, LOVERS, HUSBANDS, AND BOYFRIENDS HAVE FUCKED UP 8 GYM MEMBERSHIPS, OVER THE LAST 7 YEARS . . . IF I DIDN'T GET HER THIN, NEITHER CAN THE NEXT GUY! LOL. I PROMISE, I WILL GET THERE, I JUST KEEP GETTING INTERUPTED! SMILE. IT IS STILL FUN ON THE WAY DOWN! OH, BEFORE, I FORGET, I WANTED TO THANK, EITHER THE POVERELLO CENTER, DONOR, OF THE KFC CHICKEN, AND FEAST, ENOUGH TO FEED THE WHOLE POV, OR KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, FOR THEIR VERY GENEROUS, CONTRIBUTION . . . I EVEN GOT THERE LATE FOR SATURDAY LUNCH, AND THERE WAS SITLL, QUITE A BIT OF CHICKEN AND GOOD PIECES LEFT, SO, THANK YOU! WE GOT THE FOOD DELIVERED, FRIDAY NIGHT, BUT THE COOKS, MADE US WAIT UNTIL, SATURDAY, SO THEY COULD, RATTLE THROUGH THE FOOD FIRST! LOL. THAT'S OKAY, THEY COOK UP A STORM FOR US, AND, THEY ALWAYS, DO A GOOD JUST WITH WHAT THEY HAVE! ONE DUDE IN THE KITCHEN TOLD ME HE COOKS HIMSELF A RIB-EYE STEAK, EVERY NIGHT! COOK ME ONE! FAVORITE STEAK! PROBABLY LIMITED SUPPLY, SO, THE COOKS DESERVE IT! KISSES. LOVES, HUGS. ALWAYS GREATFUL! SO, APPROPRIATELY FOR SUNDAY, MORNING, WITHOUT, A CHURCH, I DECIDED TO BREAK OUT THE SCRIPTURES . . . MY FAVORITE, APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST, IS, THE NON-OFFICIALLY CALLED, APOSTLE, THE GREATEST MISSIONARY, ON EARTH, THE APOSTLE, ATTORNEY, PAUL, WHOM I HAVE LOVED SINCE I WAS A CHILD, READING THE BIBLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, NEW TESTAMENT, AND MY FAVORITE BOOK IS ROMANS, FOR SO MANY REASONS, HEAVY DUTY LAW! BUT I LOVED BOTH PAUL AND THE BOOK OF ROMANS, LONG BEFORE I BECAME AND ATTORNEY! I GOT REALLY SUN BURNED, AS A TWEEN, WANTING A TAN IN ONE DAY, BUT ONLY ON THE SIDE I COULD SEE, SO I LAID OUT UNDER THE SPRINKLERS, IN MY BACK YARD FOR 8 HOURS, TO BE TAN FOR FIELD DAY, IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE I WAS A 7TH GRADE CLASS OFFICER! I ENDED UP PURPLE ON THE FRONT SIDE OF ME, TOTALLY, BONE ASS WHITE ON THE BACK, WHERE I COULDN'T SEE, DIDN'T CARE, LOL., AND WITH BLISTERS, ALL OVER MY BODY, AND ONE ON MY UPPER CHEST AREA, BELOW, MY NECK, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SMALL PANCAKE, AND RAISED ABOUT, A HALF AN INCH, WITH, WATER, UNDER THE BLISTER! I WAS SO, BURNED, THAT MY FATHER WAS PISSED, AND, IN SO MUCH PAIN, THAT I PROMISED GOD IF I LIVED, I WOULD READ THE ENTIRE BIBLE, AND I DID, FOR THE FIRST TIME! I HAVE LOVED IT EVER SINCE! SO, AFTER MY DISCUSSION ON ABORTION AND THE SCRIPTURE, THAT MADE ME FEEL, A-OKAY, ABOUT GETTING AN ABORTION, FIRST MONTH AS AN ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN UTAH, ROMANS 14:14, I DECIDED I BETTER REFRESH MY MEMORY AND SEE IF I LED ANYONE ASTRAY, IF IT DIDN'T SAY WHAT I REMEMBER IT SAYING . . . THEN, I FOUND, ONE, STICKY, POINTING TO A SCRIPTURE, THAT SAID, THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO START, THEN, I READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF ROMANS, AND IT WAS A PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF THE PEOPLE, WHO HAVE DONE ALL THIS SHIT TO ME . . . I AM SURE, LONG TIME READERS, WILL RECOGNIZE, MY THOUGHTS, IN PAUL'S WRITINGS! OH, IS THAT WHERE I GOT THIS STUFF FROM, SAY BACK IN 7TH GRADE? BOTH ATTORNEYS, BOTH SUFFERED GREATLY AT THE HANDS OF MANY . . . PARTICULARLY, CEASAR'S COPS! I AM NOT GOING TO SPELL CHECK, CEASAR'S, BECAUSE, THE AUTO HACK WILL KICK IN, SO JUST BEAR WITH ME!

NOT JUST YOUR CREEPY UNCLE JOE . . . MR. BUS LIAR, WAS ASKING PEOPLE IN LINE FOR LUNCH, IF THEY WANTED A HUG FROM HIM . . . I SAID, NO, I AM KIND OF A TOUCH ME NOT, TYPE GAL.  SO, ANOTHER DUDE, WHO TRIED TO PICK UP ON ME, LAST YEAR, CAME AND PUT HIS ARM AROUND ME AND SQUEEZED ME, AND SAID, YOU DON'T MIND IF I HUG YOU . . . OH, YES, I DO, YOU NEVER ASKED!

LOL.

HOLY BIBLE. ESV VERSION. I WAS RAISED ON THE KING JAMES VERSION

Romans 14:14

(11) As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

(12) So then each of us will give an accounting of himself to God.

(14) I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it is unclean.

Yellow Sticky with an Arrow

Isaiah 45:18 and 19 . . . For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!). who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!); "I am the Lord, and there is no other, I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, Seek me in vain.  I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Romans 1 and 2 . . . If The Shoe Fits . . . Wear It!  God Declares What is Right!

JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE!

Romans 1-2 English Standard Version (ESV)

Greeting

1 Paul, a servant^[a] of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, ² which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³ concerning his Son, who was descended from David^[b] according to the flesh ⁴ and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ⁶ including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,

⁷ To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Longing to Go to Rome

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you ¹⁰ always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— ¹² that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,^[c] that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians,^[d] both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,^[e] as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”^[f]

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ¹⁹ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,^[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
²⁴ Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; ²⁷ and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
²⁸ And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³² Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

God's Righteous Judgment

2 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. ² We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. ³ Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵ But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

⁶ He will render to each one according to his works: ⁷ to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸ but for those who are self-seeking^[h] and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. ⁹ There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. ¹¹ For God shows no partiality.

God's Judgment and the Law

¹² For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. ¹⁴ For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them ¹⁶ on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
¹⁷ But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God ¹⁸ and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; ¹⁹ and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— ²¹ you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? ²² You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. ²⁴ For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
²⁵ For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. ²⁶ So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded^[i] as circumcision? ²⁷ Then he who is physically^[j] uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code^[k] and circumcision but break the law. ²⁸ For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. ²⁹ But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.

Footnotes:

1. Romans 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
2. Romans 1:3 Or who came from the offspring of David
3. Romans 1:13 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
4. Romans 1:14 That is, non-Greeks
5. Romans 1:17 Or beginning and ending in faith
6. Romans 1:17 Or The one who by faith is righteous shall live
7. Romans 1:20 Or clearly perceived from the creation of the world
8. Romans 2:8 Or contentious
9. Romans 2:26 Or counted
10. Romans 2:27 Or is by nature
11. Romans 2:27 Or the letter