Study Desk

In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men according to my gospel by Jesus Christ.

Now if you who are called a Jew, trust on the law and are proud of God,

You are proud of the law but you dishonor God by breaking the law.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

But a real Jew is one who is inwardly so, and circumcision is of the heart, spiritually and not literally; whose praise is not from men but from God.

Much in every way: because the Jews were the first to believe in the words of God.

For what if some had not believed, could their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

Far be it: only God is true and no man is wholly perfect; as it is written, That you may be justified by your words, and triumph when you are judged.

Now if our iniquity serves to establish the righteousness of God, what then shall we say? Is God unjust when he inflicts his anger? I speak as a man.

Far be it: for then how could God judge the world?

For if the truth of God is made abundant through my falsehood to his glory, why then am I to be judged as a sinner?

There are none who understand, there are none who seek after God.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it is said to those who are under the law: so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may become guilty before God.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, and the very law and prophets testify to it;

But the righteousness of God is by the faith of Jesus Christ to every one, also to every man who believes in him, for there is no discrimination:

For all have sinned and are short of the glory of God:

For they are freely bestowed righteousness by the grace of God through the salvation which is in Jesus Christ, *

Whom God has foreordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of our sins that are past;

By the opportunity which God has given us through his forbearance, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be declared righteous; and for the justification of righteousness to him who is in the faith of our LORD Jesus Christ.