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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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