Study Desk

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge."

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

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

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

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

And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,