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

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law: but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

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

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those that believe; for there is no distinction;

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory 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 has faith in Jesus.

For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not toward God.

For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

But to him that does not work, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcision, or on 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.

For if those that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect:

for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

Therefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.