Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the Lord!
The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?
For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited their adherents.