Romans:3
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What advantage then hath the Jew ?
or what profit is there of circumcision ?
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Much every way :
chiefly ,
because that unto them were committed the oracles of God .
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For what if some did not believe ?
shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect ?
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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 .
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God ,
what shall we say ?
Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance ? (
I speak as a man )
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God forbid :
for then how shall God judge the world ?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory ;
why yet am I also judged as a sinner ?
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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 .
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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 ;
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As it is written ,
There is none righteous ,
no ,
not one :
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There is none that understandeth ,
there is none that seeketh after God .
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They are all gone out of the way ,
they are together become unprofitable ;
there is none that doeth good ,
no ,
not one .
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Their throat is an open sepulchre ;
with their tongues they have used deceit ;
the poison of asps is under their lips :
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness :
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Their feet are swift to shed blood :
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Destruction and misery are in their ways :
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And the way of peace have they not known :
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There is no fear of God before their eyes .
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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 .
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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 .
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested ,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets ;
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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 :
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For all have sinned ,
and come short of the glory of God ;
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus :
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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 ;
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To declare ,
I say ,
at this time his righteousness :
that he might be just ,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus .
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Where is boasting then ?
It is excluded .
By what law ?
of works ?
Nay :
but by the law of faith .
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law .
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Is he the God of the Jews only ?
is he not also of the Gentiles ?
Yes ,
of the Gentiles also :
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Seeing it is one God ,
which shall justify the circumcision by faith ,
and uncircumcision through faith .
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Do we then make void the law through faith ?
God forbid :
yea ,
we establish the law .