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For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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

Now to him who works, the reward is not accounted as of grace, but as of debt.

But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father, Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.