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

since God is one, who will justify those who are circumcised by faith and those who are uncircumcised through faith.

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

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

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

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as though they are,

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God

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

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

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

but God demonstrates 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, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

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

But the gift is not like the trespass, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.

For that death he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that life he lives, he lives to God.

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.

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