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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

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

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise does not come from men, but from God.

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

For it was not through the law that Abraham and his descendants were promised that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring-not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited-for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.