| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.) |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come "? Their condemnation is just. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS"; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS"; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law. |
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