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What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

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Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of YAHUVEH.

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For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of YAHUVEH?

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YAHUVEH forbid: yea, let YAHUVEH be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

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But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of YAHUVEH, what shall we say? Is YAHUVEH unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

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YAHUVEH forbid: for then how shall YAHUVEH judge the world?

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But if the truth of YAHUVEH through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

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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;

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as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

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There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after YAHUVEH;

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

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

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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Their feet are swift to shed blood;

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Destruction and misery are in their ways;

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And the way of peace have they not known:

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There is no fear of YAHUVEH before their eyes.

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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 YAHUVEH:

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because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

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But now apart from the law a righteousness of YAHUVEH hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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even the righteousness of YAHUVEH through faith in YAHUSHUA the Messiah unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

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for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of YAHUVEH;

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being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Messiah YAHUSHUA:

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whom YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH;

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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 YAHUSHUA.

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

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We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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Or is YAHUVEH the YAHUVEH of Jews only? is he not the YAHUVEH of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

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if so be that YAHUVEH is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

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Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? YAHUVEH forbid: nay, we establish the law.