3What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?G5101G4053G3767G2453G2228G5101G5622G40612Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.G4183G2596G3956G5158G4412G3303G1063G3754G4100G3051G23163What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?G1063G5101G1487G5100G569G3361G2673G846G570G2673G4102G2316G26734Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."G3361G1096G1161G1096G2316G1096G227G1161G3956G444G5583G2531G1125G3704G302G1344G1722G4675G3056G2532G3528G1722G4571G29195But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)G1161G1487G2257G93G4921G1343G2316G5101G2046G3361G2316G94G2018G3709G3004G2596G4446Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?G3361G1096G1893G4459G2919G2316G2919G28897Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"G1063G1487G225G2316G4052G1722G1699G5582G1519G846G1391G5101G2089G2919G2504G2919G5613G2688Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.G2532G3361G2531G987G2532G2531G5100G5346G2248G3004G3754G4160G2556G2443G18G2064G3739G2917G2076G1738
No One Is Righteous
9What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.G5101G3767G4284G3756G3843G1063G4256G5037G2453G2532G1672G1511G3956G5259G26610As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;G2531G1125G3754G2076G3756G1342G3761G152011there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.G2076G3756G4920G2076G3756G1567G231612All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."G1578G3956G1578G889G260G889G2076G3756G4160G5544G3756G2076G2193G152013"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The poison of vipers is on their lips."G846G2995G455G5028G846G1100G1387G2447G785G5259G846G549114"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."G3739G4750G1073G685G2532G408815"Their feet are swift to shed blood;G846G4228G3691G1632G12916ruin and misery mark their ways,G4938G2532G5004G1722G846G359817and the way of peace they do not know."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, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.G1161G1492G3754G3745G3551G3004G2980G1722G3551G2443G3956G4750G5420G2532G3956G2889G1096G5267G231620Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.G1360G1537G2041G3551G1344G3956G3756G4561G1344G846G1799G1063G1223G3551G1922G266
Righteousness Through Faith
21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.G1161G3570G1343G2316G5565G3551G5319G3140G5259G3551G2532G439622This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,G1161G1343G2316G1223G4102G2424G5547G1519G3956G2532G1909G3956G4100G1063G2076G3756G129323for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,G1063G3956G264G2532G5302G1391G231624and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.G1344G1432G846G5485G1223G629G1722G5547G242425God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—G3739G2316G4388G2435G1223G4102G1722G846G129G1519G1732G846G1343G1223G3929G265G4266G1722G463G231626he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.G4314G1732G1722G3568G2540G846G1343G1519G1511G1342G2532G1344G846G4102G1537G242427Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith.G4226G2746G3767G1576G1223G4169G3551G2041G3780G235G1223G3551G410228For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.G3767G3049G444G1344G4102G5565G2041G355129Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,G2228G2316G2453G3440G3780G1161G2532G1484G3483G1484G253230since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.G1897G1520G2316G3739G1344G4061G1537G4102G2532G203G1223G410231Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.G2673G3767G2673G3551G1223G4102G3361G1096G235G2476G3551
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