<t /><p class="bodytext">But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law<n id="1" /> and boast of your relationship to God<n id="2" />

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

Pilate answered, &#8220;I am not a Jew, am I?<n id="1" /> Your own people<n id="2" /> and your chief priests handed you over<n id="3" /> to me. What have you done?&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus.<n id="1" /> He was an eloquent speaker,<n id="2" /> well-versed<n id="3" /> in the scriptures.

But when they recognized<n id="1" /> that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Great is Artemis<n id="3" /> of the Ephesians!&#8221; for about two hours.<n id="4" />

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart<n id="1" /> by the Spirit<n id="2" /> and not by the written code.<n id="3" /> This person&#8217;s<n id="4" /> praise is not from people but from God.p>

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave<n id="1" /> or free, but Christ is all and in all.p>

So the Samaritan woman said to him, &#8220;How can you &#8211; a Jew<n id="1" /> &#8211; ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water<n id="2" /> to drink?&#8221; (For Jews use nothing in common<n id="3" /> with Samaritans.)<n id="4" />p>

Paul answered,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am a Jew<n id="2" /> from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city.<n id="3" /> Please<n id="4" /> allow me to speak to the people.&#8221;

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law)<n id="1" /> to gain those under the law.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas<n id="1" /> in front of them all, &#8220;If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force<n id="2" /> the Gentiles to live like Jews?&#8221;p>

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave<n id="1" /> nor free, there is neither male nor female<n id="2" /> &#8211; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

&#8220;I am a Jew,<n id="1" /> born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up<n id="2" /> in this city, educated with strictness<n id="3" /> under<n id="4" /> Gamaliel<n id="5" /> according to the law of our ancestors,<n id="6" /> and was<n id="7" /> zealous<n id="8" /> for God just as all of you are today.