The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
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What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
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Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
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That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, |
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and mightest overcome when thou art judged. Ps. 51.4 |
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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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There Is None Righteous |
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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,
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There is none righteous, no, not one: |
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there is none that understandeth,
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there is none that seeketh after God. |
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They are all gone out of the way,
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they are together become unprofitable; |
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there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Ps. 14.1-3 ; 53.1-3 |
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Their throat is an open sepulchre;
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with their tongues they have used deceit; Ps. 5.9 |
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the poison of asps is under their lips: Ps. 140.3 |
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whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Ps. 10.7
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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: Is. 59.7, 8
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there is no fear of God before their eyes. Ps. 36.1
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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: Ps. 143.2 · Gal. 2.16 for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Righteousness through Faith |
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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 Gal. 2.16 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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whom God 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.
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