^{10 Ref} As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

^{11 Ref} Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

^{12 Ref} They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

^{13 Ref} Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

^{14 Ref} Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

^{15 Ref} Their feet are quick in running after blood;

¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

^{17 Ref} And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

^{18 Ref} There is no fear of God before their eyes.

^{19 Ref} Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

^{20 Ref} Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

^{21 Ref} But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

^{22 Ref} That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

^{23 Ref} For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;

^{24 Ref} And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

^{25 Ref} Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

^{26 Ref} And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

^{27 Ref} What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

^{28 Ref} For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

^{29 Ref} Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

^{30 Ref} If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

^{31 Ref} Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.