Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

What is our conclusion then? Is it that we Jews are better than they? Not at all! For we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under the sway of sin,

Their mouths are full of bitter cursing.

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

Has not the potter the right with his clay to make of the same lump one vessel for ornamental purposes, another for degrading service?