| 1: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision? |
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| 2: Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God. |
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect? |
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| 4: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it
is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged. |
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| 5: But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as
a man) |
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| 6: God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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| 7: For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
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| 8: And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation
is just. |
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| 9: What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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| 10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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| 11: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God. |
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| 12: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
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| 13: Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
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| 14: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: |
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| 15: Their feet are swift to shed blood: |
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| 16: Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
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| 17: And the way of peace have they not known: |
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| 18: There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
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| 19: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith
to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before God. |
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| 20: Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. |
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| 21: But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
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| 22: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no
difference: |
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| 23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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| 24: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus: |
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| 25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past, through the forbearance of God; |
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| 26: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. |
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| 27: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of
works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
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| 28: Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law. |
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| 29: Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
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| 30: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by
faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
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| 31: Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law. |
