^{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.