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   dishonourest thou God?   
      
   24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as   
   it is written.   
      
   25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou   
   be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.   
      
   26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law,   
   shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?   
      
   27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the   
   law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?   
      
   28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that   
   circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:   
      
   29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of   
   the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of   
   men, but of God.   
      
   Romans Chapter 3   
      
   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.   
      
   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 judge the world?   
      
   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 one:   
      
   11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.   
      
   12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become   
   unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.   
      
   13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used   
   deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:   
      
   14 Whose 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 have they not known:   
      
   18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.   
      
   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 stopped, and all the   
   world may become guilty before God.   
      
   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 propitiation 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 law.   
      
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