and [if you claim to] know His will and approve the things that are essential or have a sense of what is excellent, based on your instruction from the Law,

Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

But if our unrighteousness causes God's plan of justifying men to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

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

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

One person regards one day as better [or more important] than another, while another regards every day [the same as any other]. Let everyone be fully convinced (assured, satisfied) in his own mind.

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

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

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.