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through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

What then? If some were without faith, shall their want of faith make of no effect the faithfulness of God?

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those that believe; for there is no distinction;

whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done previously, in the forbearance of God;

for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that has faith in Jesus.

Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? No: but by a law of faith.

For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

since there is [only] one God, he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? God forbid: no, we establish the law.

But to him that does not work, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcision, or on the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all those that believe, though they are in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.

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 righteousness of faith.

For if those that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect:

For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure 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 without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;