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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3 | 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.
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