What
advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
02 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto
them were committed the oracles of God.
03 For what if some did not believe? shall their
unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
04 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every
man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest
be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.
05 But if our unrighteousness commend the
righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God
unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
man)
06 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the
world?
07 For if the truth of God hath more abounded
through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also
judged as a sinner?
08 And not rather, (as we be slanderously
reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us
do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is
just.
09 What then? are we better than they? No, in no
wise: for we have before proved both Jews and
Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no,
not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their
tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps
is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
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17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law
saith, it saith to them who are under the law:
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the
world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall
no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the
law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the
law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by
faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them
that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By
what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also
of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through
faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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