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eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good;

but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.Job 1:24:13; Romans 1:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;">[xr]

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.Amos 3:2; Luke 12:47-48; 1 Peter 4:17;">[xr]

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.1 Peter 1:7;">[xr]

For God does not show partiality.Deuteronomy 10:17; 2 Chronicles 19:7; Job 1:34:19; Acts 10:34; Galatians 2:6; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25; 1 Peter 1:17;">[xr]

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not merely those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who do the law, who will be justified.Matthew 7:21; James 1:22-23,25; 1 John 3:7;">[xr]

For whenever Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,Matthew 15:14; John 9:34,40-41;">[xr]

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Galatians 5:3;">[xr]

For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something external and physical.Matthew 3:9; John 8:39; Romans 9:6-7; Galatians 6:15; Revelation 2:9;">[xr]

What, then, does this mean?does this mean">[fn] Are we JewsJews">[fn] any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power ofthe power of">[fn] sin.Romans 3:23; Galatians 3:22;">[xr]

No one understands. No one searches for God.

There is no fear ofreverence for">[fn] God before their eyes."Psalm 36:1">[fn]Psalm 36:1;">[xr]

Therefore, no human being will be justified in God'shis">[fn] sight by means of the works prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.Psalm 143:2; Acts 13:39; Romans 7:7; Galatians 2:16; 3:11; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5;">[xr]

God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus Christthrough faith in Jesus Christ">[fn] for all who believe. For there is no distinction,Romans 10:12; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11;">[xr]

For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have had something to boast about - though not before God.Romans 3:20,27-28;">[xr]

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."Genesis 15:6">[fn]Genesis 15:6; Galatians 3:6; James 2:23;">[xr]

Now does this blessedness come to the circumcised alone, or also to the uncircumcised? For we say, "Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness."Genesis 15:6">[fn]

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness produced by faith.Genesis 17:4; Galatians 3:29;">[xr]