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* What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit is there of circumcision ? * Much every way : chiefly , because that unto them were committed (5681 ) the oracles of God . * For what if some did not believe (5656 )? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect (5692 )? * God forbid (5636 ): yea , let God be (5737 ) true , but every man a liar ; as it is written (5769 ), That thou mightest be justified (5686 ) in thy sayings , and mightest overcome (5661 ) when thou art judged (5745 ). * But if our unrighteousness commend (5719 ) the righteousness of God , what shall we say (5692 )? Is God unrighteous who taketh (5723 ) vengeance ? (I speak (5719 ) as a man ) * God forbid (5636 ): for then how shall God judge (5692 ) (5719 ) the world ? * For if the truth of God hath more abounded (5656 ) through my lie unto his glory ; why yet am I also judged (5743 ) as a sinner ? * And not rather , (as we be slanderously reported (5743 ), and as some affirm (5748 ) that we say (5721 ),) Let us do (5661 ) evil , that good may come (5632 )? whose damnation is (5748 ) just . * What then ? are we better (5736 ) than they ? No , in no wise : for we have before proved (5662 ) both Jews and Gentiles , that they are (5750 ) all nder sin ; * As it is written (5769 ), There is (5748 ) none righteous , no , not one : * There is (5748 ) none that understandeth (5723 ), there is (5748 ) none that seeketh after (5723 ) God . * They are all gone out of the way (5656 ), they are together become unprofitable (5681 ); there is (5748 ) none that doeth (5723 ) good , no , not one (5748 ) . * Their throat is an open (5772 ) sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit (5707 ); the poison of asps is under their lips : * Whose mouth is full (5719 ) of cursing and bitterness : * Their feet are swift to shed (5658 ) blood : * Destruction and misery are in their ways : * And the way of peace have they not known (5627 ): * There is (5748 ) no fear of God before their eyes . * Now we know (5758 ) that what things soever the law saith (5719 ), it saith (5719 ) to them who are under the law : that every mouth may be stopped (5652 ), and all the world may become (5638 ) guilty before God . * Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified (5701 ) in his sight : for by the law is the knowledge of sin . * But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested (5769 ), being witnessed (5746 ) by the law and the prophets ; * Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe (5723 ): for there is (5748 ) no difference : * For all have sinned (5627 ), and come short (5743 ) of the glory of God ; * Being justified (5746 ) freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : * Whom God hath set forth (5639 ) to be a propitiation through faith in his blood , to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past (5761 ), through the forbearance of God ; * To declare , I say , at this time his righteousness : that he might be (5750 ) just , and the justifier (5723 ) of him which believeth in Jesus . * Where is boasting then ? It is excluded (5681 ). By what law ? of works ? Nay : but by the law of faith . * Therefore we conclude (5736 ) that a man is justified (5745 ) by faith without the deeds of the law . * Is he the God of the Jews only ? is he not also of the Gentiles ? Yes , of the Gentiles also : * Seeing it is one God , which shall justify (5692 ) the circumcision by faith , and uncircumcision through faith . * Do we then make void (5719 ) the law through faith ? God forbid (5636 ): yea , we establish (5719 ) the law . * What shall we say (5692 ) then that Abraham our father , as pertaining to the flesh , hath found (5760 )? * For if Abraham were justified (5681 ) by works , he hath (5719 ) whereof to glory ; but not before God . * For what saith (5719 ) the scripture ? Abraham believed (5656 ) God , and it was counted (5681 ) unto him for righteousness . * Now to him that worketh (5740 ) is the reward not reckoned (5736 ) of grace , but of debt . * But to him that worketh (5740 ) not , but believeth (5723 ) on him that justifieth (5723 ) the ungodly , his faith is counted (5736 ) for righteousness . * Even as David also describeth (5719 ) the blessedness of the man , unto whom God imputeth (5736 ) righteousness without works , * Saying , Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven (5681 ), and whose sins are covered (5681 ). * Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute (5667 ) sin . * Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only , or upon the uncircumcision also ? for we say (5719 ) that faith was reckoned (5681 ) to Abraham for righteousness . * How was it then reckoned (5681 )? when he was (5752 ) in circumcision , or in uncircumcision ? Not in circumcision , but in uncircumcision . * And he received (5627 ) the sign of circumcision , a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised : that he might be (5750 ) the father of all them that believe (5723 ), though they be not circumcised ; that righteousness might be imputed (5683 ) unto them also : * And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only , but who also walk (5723 ) in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham , which he had being yet uncircumcised . * For the promise , that he should be (5750 ) the heir of the world , was not to Abraham , or to his seed , through the law , but through the righteousness of faith . * For if they which are of the law be heirs , faith is made void (5769 ), and the promise made of none effect (5769 ): * Because the law worketh (5736 ) wrath : for where no law is (5748 ), there is no transgression . * Therefore it is of faith , that it might be by grace ; to the end the promise might be (5750 ) sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law , but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; who is (5748 ) the father of us all , * (As it is written (5769 ), I have made (5758 ) thee a father of many nations ,) before him whom he believed (5656 ), even God , who quickeneth (5723 ) the dead , and calleth (5723 ) those things which be (5752 ) not as though they were (5752 ). * Who against hope believed (5656 ) in hope , that he might become (5635 ) the father of many nations , according to that which was spoken (5772 ), So shall thy seed be (5704 ). * And being not weak (5660 ) in faith , he considered (5656 ) not his own body now dead (5772 ), when he was (5723 ) about an hundred years old , neither yet the deadness of Saras womb : * He staggered (5681 ) not at the promise of God through unbelief ; but was strong (5681 ) in faith , giving (5631 ) glory to God ; * And being fully persuaded (5685 ) that , what he had promised (5766 ), he was (5748 ) able also to perform (5658 ). * And therefore it was imputed (5681 ) to him for righteousness . * Now it was not written (5648 ) for his sake alone , that it was imputed (5681 ) to him ; * But for us also , to whom it shall be (5719 ) imputed (5745 ), if we believe (5723 ) on him that raised up (5660 ) Jesus our Lord from the dead ; * Who was delivered (5681 ) for our offences , and was raised again (5681 ) for our justification . * Therefore being justified (5685 ) by faith , we have (5719 ) peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ :

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