Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.