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But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

For he will repay according to each one's deeds:

to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

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

For God shows no partiality.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.

Much, in every way. For in the first place the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

What then? Are we any better off? No, not at all; for we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,

For "no human being will be justified in his sight" by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.

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

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

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.