Study Desk

Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person's praise is not from people but from God.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed—

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants—not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all