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true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say?
Is
God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
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God forbid: for
then how shall God judge the world?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie
unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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And not
rather,
(as we be slanderously
reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation
is just.
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What then? are we better
than they?
No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and
Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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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Whose mouth
is
full of cursing and bitterness:
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Their feet
are
swift to shed blood:
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Destruction and misery
are
in their ways:
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And the way of peace have they not known:
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There
is no fear of God before their eyes.
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Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law:
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law
is
the knowledge
of sin.
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets;
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Even the righteousness of God
which is
by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
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For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God;
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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WhomGod hath set forth
to be
a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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To declare,
I say,
at this
time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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Where
is
boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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Is he
the
God of the Jews only?
is he
not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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Seeing
it is
one
God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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Do we then
make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
CHAPTER 4
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
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For if
Abraham were justified by works, he hath
whereof
to glory; but not before God.
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For what saith
the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
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Now to
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