and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision?

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?