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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

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

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;

for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

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

Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.

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

And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him;

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

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.