1 Cor. 9:19-23. 19. "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.--_And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews_; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law:--_To them that are without law, as without law_, being not without law to God but under the law to Christ, _that I might gain them that are without law_.--To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.--And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you." 2 Cor. 3:12 to 17. "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.--And not as _Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished_.--But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.--But even unto this day, _when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart_.--Nevertheless _when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away_.--Now the Lord is that spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Now as to _circumcision_ in particular. Rom. 2:25, 26, 27, 28, 29. "For _circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.--Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?_--And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?--For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:--But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." Rom. 3:1, 2. "What advantages then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?--Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."