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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 all of you, 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."

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith make of no effect the faithfulness of God?

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done before, in the forbearance of God;

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

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

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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 who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

The father of circumcision to those 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 who 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.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.