3What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?G5101G4053G3767G2453G2228G5101G5622G40612Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.G4183G2596G3956G5158G4412G3303G1063G3754G4100G3051G23163For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?G1063G5101G1487G5100G569G3361G2673G846G570G2673G4102G2316G26734Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged."G3361G1096G1161G1096G2316G1096G227G1161G3956G444G5583G2531G1125G3704G302G1344G1722G4675G3056G2532G3528G1722G4571G29195But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)G1161G1487G2257G93G4921G1343G2316G5101G2046G3361G2316G94G2018G3709G3004G2596G4446Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?G3361G1096G1893G4459G2919G2316G2919G28897For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?G1063G1487G225G2316G4052G1722G1699G5582G1519G846G1391G5101G2089G2919G2504G2919G5613G2688And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.G2532G3361G2531G987G2532G2531G5100G5346G2248G3004G3754G4160G2556G2443G18G2064G3739G2917G2076G1738
All Have Sinned
9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.G5101G3767G4284G3756G3843G1063G4256G5037G2453G2532G1672G1511G3956G5259G26610As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;G2531G1125G3754G2076G3756G1342G3761G152011There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.G2076G3756G4920G2076G3756G1567G231612They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."G1578G3956G1578G889G260G889G2076G3756G4160G5544G3756G2076G2193G152013"Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips";G846G2995G455G5028G846G1100G1387G2447G785G5259G846G549114"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."G3739G4750G1073G685G2532G408815"Their feet are swift to shed blood;G846G4228G3691G1632G12916Destruction and misery are in their ways;G4938G2532G5004G1722G846G359817And the way of peace they have not known."G2532G3598G1515G1097G3756G109718"There is no fear of God before their eyes."G2076G3756G5401G2316G561G846G378819Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.G1161G1492G3754G3745G3551G3004G2980G1722G3551G2443G3956G4750G5420G2532G3956G2889G1096G5267G231620Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.G1360G1537G2041G3551G1344G3956G3756G4561G1344G846G1799G1063G1223G3551G1922G266
God’s Righteousness Through Faith
21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,G1161G3570G1343G2316G5565G3551G5319G3140G5259G3551G2532G439622even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;G1161G1343G2316G1223G4102G2424G5547G1519G3956G2532G1909G3956G4100G1063G2076G3756G129323for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,G1063G3956G264G2532G5302G1391G231624being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,G1344G1432G846G5485G1223G629G1722G5547G242425whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,G3739G2316G4388G2435G1223G4102G1722G846G129G1519G1732G846G1343G1223G3929G265G4266G1722G463G231626to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.G4314G1732G1722G3568G2540G846G1343G1519G1511G1342G2532G1344G846G4102G1537G2424
Boasting Excluded
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.G4226G2746G3767G1576G1223G4169G3551G2041G3780G235G1223G3551G410228Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.G3767G3049G444G1344G4102G5565G2041G355129Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,G2228G2316G2453G3440G3780G1161G2532G1484G3483G1484G253230since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.G1897G1520G2316G3739G1344G4061G1537G4102G2532G203G1223G410231Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.G2673G3767G2673G3551G1223G4102G3361G1096G235G2476G3551
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