(6)God forbid: for how then shall God judge the world? (7)For if the truth of God by my lying hath more abundantly contributed to his glory; why am I notwithstanding judged as a sinner? (8)And why not admit, (as we are falsely reported of; and as some affirm we say,) That we should do evil things, that good may come? whose condemnation is just. (9)What then? have we pre-eminence? Not at all: for we have before proved that both the Jews and Greeks are all under sin; (10)as it is written, "There is not a just person, no not one: (11)there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (12)All are turned aside together, they are become worthless; there is none that doeth good, there is not even one. (13)Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have spoken craftily; the poison of asps is under their lips: (14)whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: (15)their feet are swift to shed blood: (16)destruction and misery are in their ways. (17)And they have not known the way of peace: (18)there is not the fear of God before their eyes[52]." (19)Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it speaks to those who are under the law: that every mouth might be sealed up, and all the world become criminal before God. (20)Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (21)But now distinct from the law the righteousness of God is manifest, receiving testimony from the law and the prophets; (22)the righteousness of God indeed by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe: for there is no difference: (23)for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (24)justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus: (25)whom God hath proposed as the propitiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, in demonstration of his justice for the remission of past sins, through the patience of God; (26)for a demonstration of his justice at this present time: that he might be just, though justifying him who is of the faith of Jesus. (27)Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. (28)We conclude therefore that by faith a man is justified, without works of law. (29)Is he the God of the Jews only, and is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, verily, of the Gentiles also: (30)since it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. (31)Do we then abolish the law through faith? God forbid: but on the contrary, we give the law stability. CHAP. IV.