And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be lifted high as Heaven? Thou shalt be driven down as low as Hades.

while at his outer door there lay a beggar, Lazarus by name,

In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not--in order to win those who are under the Law;

to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.

circumcised, as I was, on the eighth day, a member of the race of Israel and of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from Hebrews; as to the Law a Pharisee;

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

A man who has kept the Law as a whole, but has failed to keep some one command, has become guilty of violating all.