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

For God does not show favoritism.

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.

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

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.

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for Abraham,

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

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

It is rare indeed for anyone to die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

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

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!