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1 | What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  | 
2 | Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  | 
 
3 | For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  | 
 
4 | God forbid: yea, let God be 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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5 | But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)  | 
6 | God forbid: for 
then how shall God 1judge the world?
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7 | For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  | 
8 | 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.  | 
9 | 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;  | 
 
10 | As it is written, 
There is none righteous, no, not 
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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 
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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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19 | Now we know that what things soever the law 
saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be 1stopped, 
and all the world may become guilty before God.
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20 | 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.  |  
21 | But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;  | 
22 | 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:  | 
 
23 | For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  | 
24 | Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  | 
25 | Whom God hath set forth to be a apropitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;  | 
26 | To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  | 
27 | Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  | 
28 | Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  | 
29 | Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  |  
30 | Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  | 
31 | Do we then 
make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the 1law.
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