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| 3:1 |
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
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| 3:2 |
Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
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| 3:3 |
For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
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| 3:4 |
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
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| 3:5 |
But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
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| 3:6 |
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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| 3:7 |
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
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| 3:8 |
and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
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| 3:9 |
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
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| 3:10 |
as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
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| 3:11 |
There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
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| 3:12 |
They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
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| 3:13 |
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
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| 3:14 |
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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| 3:15 |
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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| 3:16 |
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
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| 3:17 |
And the way of peace have they not known:
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| 3:18 |
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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| 3:19 |
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
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| 3:20 |
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
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| 3:21 |
But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
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| 3:22 |
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
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| 3:23 |
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
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| 3:24 |
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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| 3:25 |
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 aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
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| 3:26 |
for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
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| 3:27 |
Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
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| 3:28 |
We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
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| 3:29 |
Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:
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| 3:30 |
if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
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| 3:31 |
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
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