1 [3:21]BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets, [3:22]but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference; [3:23]for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, [3:24]being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, [3:25]whom God set forth [to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed previously in the forbearance of God, [3:26]to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith. 2 [3:27]Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith. [3:28]We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law. [3:29]Is God [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also of the gentiles, [3:30] since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith. [3:31]Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law. 3 [4:1]What shall we say then that Abraham our father found according to the flesh? [4:2]For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God. [4:3]For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. [4:4]But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt. [4:5]But to one that works not, but believes on him that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for righteousness. [4:6]As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works, [4:7]Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered; [4:8]blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin. 4 [4:9]Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. [4:10]How then was it accounted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. [4:11]And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them, [4:12]and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision only, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which was in uncircumcision.