31 without understanding; covenant breakers; without tender affection; unmerciful; 32 who know the judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death; and not only they who do them, but they also who approve those that do them.

CHAPTER II.

WHEREFORE, thou art

without excuse, O man, whoever thou art that judgest; for, in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou who judgest, doest the same things:

2 and we know, that the judgment of God is according to truth, against those who do such things.

3 Thinkest thou this, O man who judgest them that do such things, and yet doest the same; that thou wilt escape the judgment of God?

4 or, despisest thou the richness of his goodness, and forbearance, and longsuffering? not knowing, that the goodness of God is urging thee to repentance;

5 while thou, after thy hardness and impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will render to every one according to his deeds:

6 to them who, by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life;

7 but, to them that are contentious and obey not the truth, but obey iniquity, indignation and wrath:

8 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who doeth evil; of the Jew indeed first, but also of the Gentile;

9 but, glory, and honour, and peace, to every one that worketh good; to the Jew first, but also to the Gentile :

10 for, there is no distinction of persons with God:

11 for, all who have sinned without the law, will also perish without the law and all who have sinned within the law, will be judged by the law:

12 for, not the hearers of the law, will be accounted just before God; but the doers of the law, will be justified;

13 for, when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by their nature the things prescribed by i. e. the ten the law, these, though they have not the law, are a lawto themselves;

commandments. Exod. xxxiv.

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14 who shew, that the work of the law is written in their c. 1. 19, M. hearts, by their conscience bearing witness with it;

15 and by their reasonings among themselves, which will accuse, or defend them in that day, when God will judge the

secrets of men, by Christ Jesus, according to my gospel.

16 Behold, thou art called, who art a Jew, and reposest on the law, and makest thy boast of God;

17 and knowest his will, and discernest its excellence, being instructed out of the law;

18 and art confident, that thou thyself art a guide to the blind; a light to them that are in darkness;

19 an instructor of the unwise; a teacher of infants; who possessest, in the law, the form of knowledge and of the truth: 20 thou, then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou, who preachest that a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

21 thou, who sayest that a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou, who abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

22 thou, who boastest of the law, dost thou dishonour God by transgressing the law?

23 for, as it is written, "the "name of God is blasphemed

among the Gentiles through you."

24 For, thy circumcision indeed profiteth thee, if thou keep the law; but, if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision becometh as uncircumcision:

sion keep the rules of the law, will not his uncircumcision be accounted to him as circumcision?

26 yea, the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, will judge thee, who, with the letter and circumcision, transgressest the law?

27 for, he is not a Jew, who is such outwardly, neither is that circumcision, which is only outward in the flesh:

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

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is unjust who exerciseth wrath? (I speak as a man :)

6 God forbid! for then, how shall God judge the world?

7 Yet, if God's truth hath the more abounded to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?

8 and why should we not say, (as we are slanderously reported to say, and as some affirm that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

9 What then? are we, Jews, better than others? Not at all; for we have before shewn, that all, both Jews and Gentiles, are under sin;

10 as it is written, "There is none just, no, not one:

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"their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

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" and the way of peace they have not known:

18 "there is no fear of God Ps. xxxvi. L "before their eyes."

19 Now, we know that what ever the law saith, it speaketh to those who are within the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

20 wherefore, by a law of works, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for, by a law, is the recognition of a sin.

21 But now, the justification of God, apart from the law, (which was testified by the law and the prophets,) is manifested,

22 even the justification of God by faith, to all that believe: for there is no distinction:

23 for, all have sinned, and have come short of the glory of God;

24 but they are justified, freely, by his grace, through the redemption that is by Christ Jesus,

25 whom God foreordained, for a propitiation through faith in his blood,

C. x. 13.

Luke, i. 73.

cursing and bitterness:

15 "their feet are swift to

"shed blood:

ance of God:

27 to be a proof of his justification, at the present time; that he

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of him who believeth in Jesus.

28 Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? by the law of works? no: but Gal. iii. 1-5 by the law of faith.

29 therefore we conclude, that man is justified by faith, apart from a law of works.

30 Is God the God of the Jews only? is he not also the God of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also;

31 since it is one and the same God, who will justify Acts, xv. 11. the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

6 as, also, David declareth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth justification, apart from works;

7 saying, "Blessed are they Ps. xxxii. 1. "whose iniquities are forgiven, "and whose sins are covered: 8 "blessed is the man, to "whom the Lord will not im"pute sin."

9 Came that blessedness, then, on the circumcision, or came it on the uncircumcision? for we say, that faith was accounted to Abraham for justification:

10 how then was it accounted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?

11 not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision; and he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the justification of his faith when he was in uncircumcision:

12 that he might be the father of all who believe in uncircumcision, that justification may be accounted to them;

13 and the father also of circumcision, to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, while he was yet in the uncircumcision :

14 for, the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his seed, through the justification of the law, but through that of faith.

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c. ix. 7, 8.

Gen. xvii. 5.

Ib. xv. 5.

15 For, if they only who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is done away:

16 because, a law worketh wrath: but, where no law is, there is no transgression of it: 17 the promise, therefore, was through the justification of faith, that it might be by grace; in order that it might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all ;

18 as it is written, "I have "made thee a father of many "nations," in return for that which he believed of God, who maketh the dead to live; and calleth for things that are not, as if they were:

19 who, against hope, believed in hope that he should become the father of many nations, according to that which had been said, "So shall thy "seed be:"

20 and, not being weak in faith, he considered not his own Heb. xi. 12. body already dead (being about an hundred years old), nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;

21 and questioned not the promise of God, through unbelief; but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God;

22 and was fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform:

23 wherefore, it was accounted to him for justification.

24 Now, it was not written for his sake alone, That it was so accounted to him;

25 but, for ours also, to whom it will be accounted, if we believe on him who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

26 who was delivered for our transgressions, and was raised for our justification.

CHAPTER V.

BEING, therefore, justified

by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

2 through whom, also, we have access, by faith, into this grace in which we stand ; and rejoice, in hope of the glory of God:

3 and not in that only, but we rejoice also in tribulations; knowing, that tribulation worketh patience;

4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope :

5 and hope causeth not to be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out into our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us;

6 since Christ died for us in v. 20. due season, while we were yet without strength, and ungodly:

7 for, scarcely would any one die for a just man; yet, per