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