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For not the hearers of the law are righteous before Aloha, but the doers of the law are justified.

But if thou (who) a Jihudoya art called, and reposest on the law, and boastest in Aloha,

For circumcision profiteth, if thou accomplish the law; but if thou transgress the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcisedness.

But if the uncircumcision shall keep the commandment of the law, is not uncircumcisedness reckoned to him (as) circumcision ?

but he is a Jihudoya who is one in inwardness; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from the sons of men, but from Aloha.

But if our iniquity the righteousness of Aloha establisheth, what shall we say ? Is Aloha evil, who bringeth his wrath ? As a man do I speak.

BUT we know that whatever the law saith, to them who are under the law it saith: that every mouth may be shut, and all the world be guilty unto Aloha.

But now, without the law the righteousness of Aloha is revealed, and the law and the prophets (themselves) testify of it.

But the righteousness of Aloha is by faith [fn] of Jeshu Meshiha, unto all and also upon all who believe in him. For there is no distinction:

Where, then, is boasting ? It is abolished. By what law ? of works ? No, but by the law of faith.

Do we therefore the law abolish by faith ? Not so, but the law itself we establish.

For if Abraham by works was justified, he had cause for boasting; but not with Aloha.

But to him who worketh, his wages are not reckoned to him as of favour, but as that which is owing to him:

but to him who worketh not, but believeth only in him who justifieth sinners, his faith is reckoned to him for righteousness.

When, then, was it reckoned to him ? In circumcision or in uncircumcision ? It was not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

and the father of the circumcision, not of them who are of the circumcision only, but of them who pursue [fn] the footsteps of the faith of uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

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

Therefore it is by faith, which is through grace, that we are justified, that the promise might be firm unto all his seed; not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

and at the promise of Aloha he wavered not as deficient in faith, but was strong in faith, and gave glory to Aloha;

but for our sake, because it should be reckoned to us also who believe in Him who hath raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead;