Study Desk

God forbid: let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who taketh vengeance?

I speak as a man. God forbid; for then how should God judge the world?

But if the truth of God hath abounded to his glory through my lie, why am I still judged as a sinner?

There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

The fear of God is not before their eyes.

Now we know that whatsoever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be found guilty before God.

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

Even the righteousness of God, by the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all that believe; for there is no difference:

For all have sinned, and are fallen short of the glory of God,

Whom God hath set forth as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness by the remission of past sins, through the forbearance of God: For a demonstration,

Is God the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Surely of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith,

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

If Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory: but he hath not in the sight of God.

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.

So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:

I have made thee a father of many nations) before God in whom he believed, as quickning the dead, and calling the things that are not, as though they were:

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

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

By whom also we have been introduced through faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.