For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.