Yea, nice try.
That is not what this passage says...another example of reading into Scripture what one first believes.
Paul here couldn’t be more timely even though he wrote nearly two thousand years ago.
Let’s substitute the words circumcision and uncircumcision for believer and unbeliever, or even baptized and unbaptized.
If the baptized believer does not live righteously then their baptism becomes like an outward thing that has not changed them inwardly. So that an unbeliever/unbaptized man who does live righteously will look at the unrighteous believer and condemn them.
What do we see and hear and read now all over the media from atheists and those of other faiths? That Christians are not living their Christianity, they are lip service, outward Christians but not inward Christians.
They then wonder, why be a Christian? And they say, why believe in God? I am a good person without Him. I live righteously without Him?
But, it is not the life we have here that we live for, it the life we wish to share with Him forever that we live for here today.
OK. So anyone who is baptized is saved. It doesn’t matter what they do after that then, does it?
If they’re in, they’re in.
OK, so baptism DOESN'T save after all.
Now it's righteous living that saves someone. After all, Paul also said...Romans 2:26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
It's really about the heart after all then, isn't it and not the outward actions.