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But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall 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 the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.

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

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

And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his 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 father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

That is why 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 us all,

No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone,

but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.