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The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For there is no favoritism with God.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

What then? Are we any better off? Not at all! For we have already charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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

But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Therefore, it was credited to him for righteousness.

Now it was credited to him was not written for Abraham alone,