1 Therefore, what
2 Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
4 May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written,
5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath,
6 May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7 But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?
8 And
9 What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
10 just as it is written,
12 All have turned aside together; they have become worthless;
13 Their throat
14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 Their feet
16 destruction and distress
17 and they have not known the way of peace.
18 The fear of God is not before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.
20 For by the works of the law
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets—
22 that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat
26 in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just and the one who justifies the
27 Therefore, where
28 For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 Or
30 since God
31 Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.