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But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words,And may overcome when You are judged." Psalms 51:4 ">[fn]

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? 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 him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.

and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,