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And they changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the created things, much more than the Creator of them, to whom belong glory and blessing, for ever and ever: Amen.

For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.

There is therefore no excuse for thee, O man, that judgest thy neighbor; for by judging thy neighbor, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, dost practise the same things.

to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal;

For there is no respect of persons with God:

for those without law, who sin, will also perish without law; and those under the law, who sin, will be judged by the law,

(for not the hearers of the law, are righteous before God; but the doers of the law are justified;

for if Gentiles who have not the law, shall, by their nature, do the things of the law; they, while without the law, become a law to themselves:

For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

For circumcision profiteth, indeed, if thou fulfillest the law: but if thou departest from the law, thy circumcision becometh uncircumcision.

For he is not a Jew, who is so in what is external: nor is that circumcision, which is visible in the flesh.

For if some of them have not believed, have they, by their not believing, made the faith of God inefficient?

Far be it: for God is veracious, and every man false: as it is written: That thou mightest be upright, in thy declarations; and be found pure, when they judge thee.

Or shall we say as some have slanderously reported us to say: We will do evil things, that good [fn] may come? The condemnation of such is reserved for justice.

Wherefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is justified before him: for, by the law, sin is known.

even the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Messiah, for every one, and on every one, that believeth in him: for there is no distinction;

for they have all sinned, and failed of the glory of God.

in the space which God in his long suffering gave to us, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time; that he might be righteous, and might with righteousness justify him who is in the faith of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

For, is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? Nay: of the Gentiles also.

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