tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

All Have Sinned

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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

whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

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

Abraham Justified by Faith

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

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 accounted to him for righteousness.”

David Celebrates the Same Truth

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;