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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? (3:7) 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 (3:8) 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; (3:9) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (3:10) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God (3:11) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one (3:12) Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: (3:13) Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: (3:14) Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: (3:15) Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: (3:16) And the way of peace have they not known: (3:17) There is no fear of God before their eyes (3:18) 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 (3:19) 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 (3:20) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (3:21) 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: (3:22) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (3:23) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (3:24) 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; (3:25) To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus (3:26) Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith (3:27) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law (3:28) [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: (3:29) Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith (3:30) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law
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