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For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,

(for not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when [those of the] nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

For he is not a Jew who [is] one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.

righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.