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But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile;

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

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

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

By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.

Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory, but not before God.

Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.

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

Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might 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;

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

But for us also, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.