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but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

(for not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

but he [is] a Jew [who is so] inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.

Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,