We know that God's judgment rightfully falls upon those who do such things as these.

And do you suppose, when you sit in judgment upon those who do such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

The real Jew is the man who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, a spiritual, not a literal, thing. Such a man receives his praise not from men, but from God.

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats.

May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus,

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.