For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.

and having become free from sin you served righteousness.

Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;