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Because of the hardness and impenitence of your heart you are laying up for yourself a treasure of wrath for the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Suffering and affliction, for every man who does evil, for the Jews first, and also for the Syrians.

But glory, honor and peace for every one who does good, to the Jews first, and also to the Syrians.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For those who have sinned without law, shall also perish without law: and those who have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law,

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

For if the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

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

For circumcision is profitable only if you keep the law: but if you break the law, then circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the statutes of the law, behold would not the uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

For it is not the one who is outwardly a Jew, who is the real Jew; neither is circumcision that which is seen in the flesh.

For what if some had not believed, could their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

Far be it: for then how could God judge the world?

For if the truth of God is made abundant through my falsehood to his glory, why then am I to be judged as a sinner?

As for those who blaspheme against us, saying that we say, Let us do evil that good may come, their condemnation is reserved for eternal justice.

What then do we uphold that is superior? We have already decided concerning both Jews and Syrians, for they are all under sin.

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified before his presence: for by means of the law, sin is known.

But the righteousness of God is by the faith of Jesus Christ to every one, also to every man who believes in him, for there is no discrimination:

For all have sinned and are short of the glory of God:

For they are freely bestowed righteousness by the grace of God through the salvation which is in Jesus Christ, *