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¹ What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what the profit of the circumcision?² Much every way; chiefly in that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.³ For what if some believed not? Shall their unbelief disannul the faithfulness of God?⁴ God forbid: let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who taketh vengeance?⁶ I speak as a man. God forbid; for then how should God judge the world?⁷ But if the truth of God hath abounded to his glory through my lie, why am I still judged as a sinner?⁸ And why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.⁹ What then? Are we better than they? In no wise: for we have before proved all, both Jews and Gentiles, to be 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 have all turned aside; they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doth good, no not one.¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.¹⁵ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood;¹⁷ Destruction and misery are in their ways, And they have not known the way of peace:¹⁸ The fear of God is not before their eyes.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatsoever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be found guilty before God.²⁰ Therefore no flesh shall be justified in his sight by the works of the law; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.²¹ But the righteousness of God without the law is now manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets,²² Even the righteousness of God, by the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all that believe; for there is no difference:²³ For all have sinned, and are fallen short of the glory of God,²⁴ And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:²⁵ Whom God hath set forth as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness by the remission of past sins, through the forbearance of God: For a demonstration,²⁶ I say, of his righteousness in this present time, that he might be just, and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works?²⁸ Nay, but by the law of faith. We conclude then, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law.²⁹ Is God the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Surely of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith,³⁰ and the uncircumcision through the same faith.³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.