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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory, but not before God.

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

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

[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham 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.

For if they who are of the law [are] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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

But for us also, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Who was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

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

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.

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

But not as the offense, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many.

And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift. For the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offenses to justification.

For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.