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,

Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

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 is our conclusion then? Is it that we Jews are better than they? Not at all! For we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under the sway of 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 boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

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

One judges one day to be better than another, but another judges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his 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.