on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of mankind through Christ Jesus.

The Jews under the Law

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from people, but from God.

Great in every respect. First, that they were entrusted with the actual words of God.

What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

Far from it! Rather, God must prove to be true, though every person be found a liar, as it is written: “So that You are justified in Your words, And prevail when You are judged.”

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking from a human viewpoint.)

Far from it! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

There is no one who understands, There is no one who seeks out God;

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

Justification by Faith

But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

but it is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in God’s merciful restraint He let the sins previously committed go unpunished;

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about; but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

(as it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that do not exist.

yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,