Every human being is a sinner
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📚✭What advantage, then, has the Jew? Or what value is there in circumcision? 2 📚✭Much every way. Chiefly, because to them were committed the oracles of God.3 📚✭For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make God’s faithfulness without effect? 4 📚Absolutely not! For let God be true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
“That you might be justified in your words,
and might overcome when you are judged”.
5 📚✭But if our unrighteousness proves the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust in bringing wrath on men (I speak as a man)? 6 📚Absolutely not! For then how would God judge the world? 7 📚For if through my lie the truth of God is enhanced for his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner? 8 📚✭And why not rather say (as we are being slanderously reported as saying, and as some affirm that we say) “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
9 📚✭What then? Are we better than they? No, not at all. For we have previously made the accusation that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. 10 📚✭As it is written,
There is none righteous, no, not one.
11 📚There is none who understands,
there is none who seeks for God.
12 📚They have all turned out of the way.
They are together become worthless.
There is none who does good,
no, not one.
13 📚Their throat is an open grave.
With their tongues they have
practiced deceit.
The poison of vipers is under
their lips.
14 📚Their mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness.
15 📚Their feet are swift
to shed blood.
16 Destruction and misery are
in their ways,
17 📚and the way of peace they have
not known.
18 📚There is no fear of God✭
before their eyes.
19 📚Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law✭, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 📚Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified✭ in his sight, for by the Law✭ is the knowledge of sin.
The gospel man needs
21 📚But✭ now the righteousness of God apart from Law is revealed, being testified by the Law and the Prophets, 22 📚even the righteousness of God, which is through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all those who believe. For there is no difference: 23 📚✭For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, 24 📚and are justified✭ freely by his grace through the redemption✭ that is in Christ Jesus. 25 📚✭ Him God has set forth to be a propitiation✭ through faith in his blood, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance God passed over the sins done in the past. 26 📚To demonstrate, I say, at this time his righteousness, so that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.
27 📚✭Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 📚Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the Law. 29 📚✭Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 📚since it is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 📚✭Do we then, through faith, put an end to the Law? Absolutely not✭! Rather, we uphold the Law.