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

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

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:

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

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

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.