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

for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:

for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves;

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

For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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

For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

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

for the shewing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.

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

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect: