For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,