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By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name:

First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.

That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine.

For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction.

Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ

Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed: not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.