Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure.