And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law?

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;"

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.