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Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He is our father in God’s sight, in whom Abraham believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

because he was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over,

But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life!

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.