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But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

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

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

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

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.

But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets,

Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith.

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

Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.

But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.

and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us,