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And by him we have received grace and apostleship among all the Gentiles, so that they may hear the faith which is under his name,

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith has been heard of throughout the world.

And that we may be comforted together by our mutual faith.

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The righteous shall live by faith.

For what if some had not believed, could their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

But the righteousness of God is by the faith of Jesus Christ to every one, also to every man who believes in him, for there is no discrimination:

Whom God has foreordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of our sins that are past;

By the opportunity which God has given us through his forbearance, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be declared righteous; and for the justification of righteousness to him who is in the faith of our LORD Jesus Christ.

Where is boasting then? It is worthless. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that it is by faith a man is justified and not by the works of the law.

Because it is one God, who justifies the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision by the same faith.

Why, then? Do we nullify the law through faith? Far be it: on the contrary, we uphold the law.

And to him who works not, but only believes in him who justifies sinners, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Now, therefore, is this blessedness on account of circumcision, or on account of uncircumcision? for we say that Abraham''s faith was accounted to him for righteousness.

For he received circumcision as a sign and a seal of the righteousness of his faith while he was uncircumcised: that he might become the father of all them who believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be given to them also;

So that the father of circumcision is not only to those who are of circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham while he was yet uncircumcised.

For the promise to Abraham and his seed that he should inherit the world was not made through the law, but through the righteousness of his faith.

For if they had become heirs by means of the law, then faith would have been empty and the promise made of no effect.

Therefore it is by faith that we will be justified by grace; so that the promise might be sure to all his seed; not only to him who is of the law, but also to him who is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all,

His faith never weakened even when he examined his old body when he was a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah''s womb.