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Whom God has foreordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of our sins that are past;

By the opportunity which God has given us through his forbearance, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be declared righteous; and for the justification of righteousness to him who is in the faith of our LORD Jesus Christ.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he had reason to be proud; but not before God.

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

And to him who works not, but only believes in him who justifies sinners, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Now, therefore, is this blessedness on account of circumcision, or on account of uncircumcision? for we say that Abraham''s faith was accounted to him for righteousness.

For he received circumcision as a sign and a seal of the righteousness of his faith while he was uncircumcised: that he might become the father of all them who believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be given to them also;

For the promise to Abraham and his seed that he should inherit the world was not made through the law, but through the righteousness of his faith.

For if they had become heirs by means of the law, then faith would have been empty and the promise made of no effect.

For the law causes provocation; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

For he who was hopeless trusted in hope, that he might become the father of many peoples, as it is written, So shall your seed be.

Therefore it was given to him for righteousness.

That his faith was given for righteousness, was not written for his sake alone,

But for us also, for he will number us also, who believe in him who raised our LORD Jesus Christ from the dead;

Who was delivered up for our offences and arose that he might justify us.

But Christ at this time, because of our weaknesses, died for the sake of the wicked.

Hardly would any man die for the sake of the wicked: * but for the sake of the good, one might be willing to die.

God has here manifested his love toward 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.

For until the law was given, though sin was in the world, it was not considered sin, because there was no law.