but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not from men, but from God.

"But if our unrighteousness confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:

"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Now to him that worketh the reward is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt:

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

And so in the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou dost evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is also the minister of God, as an avenger to execute his wrath upon the malefactor.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

I recommend to you Phebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea: