^{9 Ref} What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

^{10 Ref} as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

^{11 Ref} There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

^{12 Ref} They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

^{13 Ref} Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

^{14 Ref} Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

^{15 Ref} Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways;

^{17 Ref} And the way of peace have they not known:

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

^{19 Ref} Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

^{20 Ref} because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law `cometh' the knowledge of sin.

^{21 Ref} But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

^{22 Ref} even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

^{23 Ref} for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

^{24 Ref} being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

^{25 Ref} whom God set forth `to be' a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;

^{26 Ref} for the showing, `I say', of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

^{27 Ref} Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

^{28 Ref} We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

^{29 Ref} Or is God `the God' of Jews only? is he not `the God' of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

^{30 Ref} if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

^{31 Ref} Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.