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1 What ad­van­tage then hath the Jew? or what prof­it is there of cir­cum­ci­sion? 2 Much ev­ery way: chiefly, be­cause that unto them were com­mit­ted the or­a­cles of God. 3 For what if some did not be­lieve? shall their un­be­lief make the faith of God with­out ef­fect? 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. 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) 6 God for­bid: for then how shall God judge the world? 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? 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. 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; 10 As it is writ­ten, There is none righ­teous, no, not one: 11 There is none that un­der­standeth, there is none that seeketh af­ter God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are to­geth­er be­come un­prof­itable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepul­chre; with their tongues they have used de­ceit; the poi­son of asps is un­der their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of curs­ing and bit­ter­ness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 De­struc­tion and mis­ery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God be­fore their eyes. 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. 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. 21 But now the righ­teous­ness of God with­out the law is man­i­fest­ed, be­ing wit­nessed by the law and the prophets; 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: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glo­ry of God; 24 Be­ing jus­ti­fied freely by his grace through the re­demp­tion that is in Christ Je­sus: 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; 26 To de­clare, I say, at this time his righ­teous­ness: that he might be just, and the jus­ti­fi­er of him which be­lieveth in Je­sus. 27 Where is boast­ing then? It is ex­clud­ed. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 There­fore we con­clude that a man is jus­ti­fied by faith with­out the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews on­ly? is he not also of the Gen­tiles? Yes, of the Gen­tiles al­so: 30 See­ing it is one God, which shall jus­ti­fy the cir­cum­ci­sion by faith, and un­cir­cum­ci­sion through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God for­bid: yea, we es­tab­lish the law.