The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.: The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.
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The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.: The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.
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(11)For there is no respect of persons with God. (12)For as many as
sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as
sinned with law shall be judged by law; (13)(for not the hearers of
law are just before God, but the doers of law shall be justified:
(14)for when Gentiles, who have no law, do by nature the things
required by law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;
(15)who show the work of law written in their hearts, their conscience
witnessing therewith, and their thoughts alternately accusing, or also
excusing[2:15];) (16)in the day when God will judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
(17)But if thou art called a Jew, and restest upon law, and makest thy
boast in God, (18)and knowest his will, and approvest the things that
are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19)and art
confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those
who are in darkness, (20)an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;
(21)thou then, that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself?
Thou that preachest, a man should not steal, dost thou steal? (22)Thou
that sayest, a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit
adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege[2:22]?
(23)Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of
the law dishonorest thou God? (24)For, the name of God is blasphemed
among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
(25)For circumcision indeed profits, if thou keep the law; but if thou
art a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
(26)If then the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall
not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? (27)And shall not
the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge
thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of law?
(28)For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh. (29)But he is a Jew, who
is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit
not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
III.
WHAT then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of
circumcision? (2)Much every way; first, indeed, that they were
intrusted with the oracles of God. (3)For what if some did not
believe? Shall their unbelief make void the faithfulness of God?
(4)Far be it! Yea, let God be true and every man a liar; as it is
written:
That thou mayest be justified in thy words,
And mayest overcome when thou art judged.
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