Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

I know how to live humbly and I know how to enjoy plenty. I have learned the secret, in any and all conditions, of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of going without.

Seeing one of them being imposed upon, he interfered and defended the man who was being ill treated, striking down the Egyptian.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.