and [if you claim to] know His will and approve the things that are essential or have a sense of what is excellent, based on your instruction from the Law,

Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

But if our unrighteousness causes God's plan of justifying men to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

Has not the potter absolute power over his clay, so that out of the same lump he makes one thing for better, and another for common, use?

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind.

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure.