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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

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

Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.

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

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

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

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

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

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

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to 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: