their error (as it should be) in themselves.

And as they took no heed that they knew God, so God gave them over to a perverse mind, to do that which was not good,

Full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, full of hatred, murder, hatred, cunning, poisonous, ear-blowing,

slanderers, despisers of God, sacrilegious, proud, harmful, disobedient to parents, 31. unreasonable, faithless, stubborn, unforgiving, unmerciful

Knowing God’s righteousness (that those who do such things are worthy of death), they not only do it, but have pleasure in those who do it.
(Romans)
Chapter 2
The Jews are as much sinners as the Gentiles, though they boast of the law of Moses and of circumcision.

Therefore, O man, thou canst not excuse thyself, who thou art that judgest: for in that thou judgest another thou condemnest thyself, because thou doest the very thing which thou judgest.

For we know that the judgment of God is right against them that do these things.

But thinkest thou, O man, that judgest them which do these things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, patience and forbearance? Do you not know that God’s goodness leads you to repentance?

But thou, according to thine own hardened and impenitent heart, heapest up wrath unto thyself for the day of wrath, and for the revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Who shall give to every man according to his works,

That is, glory and honour, and incorruptible things, to them who with patience in good works seek eternal life,

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey the unrighteous, unkindness and wrath;

Tribulation and anguish upon all the souls of men that do evil, especially of the Jews, and also of the Greeks;.

But praise, and honour, and peace, unto all them that do good, to the Jews chiefly, and also to the Greeks.

For there is no respect of person before God.

They that have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and they that have sinned against the law shall be condemned by the law,

For not those who hear the law are righteous in the sight of God, but those who do the law will be righteous.

For the Gentiles, which have not the law, and yet by nature do the work of the law; these, because they have not the law, are a law unto themselves.

That they may prove that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their consciences bear witness, and their minds also, which accuse or excuse one another, 16. To the day that God shall judge the hidden things of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

And, behold, thou art called a Jew, and hast trusted in the law, and hast glorified God.

Knowing his will, and being instructed in the law, consider what is best to be done, 19. and miss thee to be a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 20. A reprover of the foolish, a teacher of the simple, having the form of knowing what is right in the law.

Now thou teachest others, and teachest not thyself. You preach that one should not steal, and you steal.

Thou sayest not to commit adultery, and thou committest adultery. Thou dost abhor idols, and rob God of what is his.

Thou boastest of the law, and defileest GOD by transgression of the law.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the heathen, as it is written.

Circumcision is profitable if thou keep the law: but if thou keep not the law, thy circumcision is become foreskin.

If therefore the foreskin keep the law, thinkest thou not that his foreskin be counted for circumcision?

And so that which is by nature a foreskin, and fulfilleth the law, shall judge thee, who art under the letter and circumcision, and transgresseth the law.

For this is not a Jew by heart, neither is it circumcision by heart in the flesh,

But this is a Jew who is inwardly hidden, and circumcision of the heart is a circumcision made in the spirit and not in the letter, which praise is not of men but of GOD.
(Romans)
Chapter 3
Righteousness comes from faith.

What advantage have the Jews, or what is the use of circumcision?

Though almost much. First, they are trusted in what God has spoken.

But if some believe not in these things, what is the matter? Should their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

Let this be far off. But let it remain that God is true, and all men false; as it is written: That thou mayest be just in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness praiseth God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Is God also unjust, that He is angry about it? (So I speak in the manner of men.) 6. be far from this! How else could God judge the world?

For if the truth of God be made more glorious to his praise by my lying, why should I be judged as a sinner any more?

And do not rather as we are blasphemed, and as some say, that we should say: Let us do evil, that good may come of it? Which condemnation is quite right.

What do we say? Do we have an advantage? None at all. For we have proved above that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

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

There is none that hath understanding; there is none that seeketh after God.

They are all gone astray, and have all become unfit: there is none that doeth good, not one.

Their mouth is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they deal deceitfully; viper’s poison is under their lips;

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

Their feet are hastening to shed blood;

In their ways is all mischief and heartache.

And the way of peace they know not;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

But we know that whatsoever the law saith, that saith it unto them which are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may owe unto God.

Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight: for by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

But now without the law the righteousness that is before God is revealed and testified by the law and the prophets.

But I say of this righteousness in the sight of God, which cometh by faith in JESUS Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe.

For there is no difference here: they are all sinners, and lack the glory which they ought to have in God,

And are justified without merit by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus,

Whom God set forth to be a mercy seat through faith in his blood, that he might present the righteousness that is before him, in that he forgiveth sins which until now have remained under divine patience,

That he might at these times present the righteousness that is before him, that he alone might be righteous, and justify him that believeth in JESUS.

Where’s the glory now? It is gone. By what law? By the law of works? Not therefore, but by the law of faith.

We hold therefore that a man is justified without works of the law, but by faith alone.

Or is God the God of the Jews alone? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, indeed, also the God of the Gentiles.

For there is one God, who justifies circumcision by faith, and the foreskin by faith.

How then do we abolish the law by faith? Far be it from that; but we establish the law.
(Romans)
Chapter 4
The righteousness of faith is explained by the example of Abraham.

What say we then of Abraham our father, that he was found according to the flesh?

This is what we say: If Abraham is righteous by works, he has glory, but not before God.

What then saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him for righteousness.

But to him that worketh the reward is not by grace, but by duty.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

According to which David also saith, that salvation is of man only, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying:

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom God does not impute sin.

Now this blessedness, is it by circumcision, or by foreskin? We must ever say that Abraham’s faith was counted for righteousness.

How then is he imputed to him, in circumcision, or in the foreskin? Without doubt, not in circumcision, but in the foreskin.

And the sign of circumcision he received for a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in the foreskin, that he might be made a father of all them which believe in the foreskin, that they also might be counted for righteousness.

And would also be a father of the circumcision, not only of them that are of the circumcision, but also of them that walk in the footsteps of faith, which was in the foreskin of Abraham our father.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not made to Abraham, nor to his seed, by the law, but by the righteousness of faith.

For where they that are of the law are heirs, faith is nothing, and the promise is taken away.

For the law worketh wrath: for where the law is not, there is no transgression.

Therefore righteousness must come by faith, that it may be by grace; and that the promise may stand fast