For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not something physical and external.

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you cause to be proud of me, to use in answering men who pride themselves on external advantages and not on sincerity of heart.

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.

You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

You must not adopt the external attractions of arranging the hair and wearing jewelry and dress;