In order to win his fellow Jews, he is happy to live under the stipulations of that law-covenant and not be unnecessarily offensive to them, but he insists that the law-covenant no longer binds him. It cannot; he is under a new covenant (cf. 1 Cor. 11:25). On the other side, to win those not having the law of God expressed in the old covenant—namely, Gentiles—he is prepared to live like those without any of the constraints of the law-covenant upon them; but there are constraints beyond which he cannot go.
