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that23 I continually remember you 1:10 and I always ask24 in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.25 1:11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift26 to strengthen you,
1:12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one
(and was prevented until now),
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1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
The righteous by faith will live.”38
The Condemnation of the Unrighteous
because what can be known about God is plain to them,42 because God has made it plain to them.
So people43 are without excuse.
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They are filled61 with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with62 envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers,63 heartless, ruthless.
they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.66
The Condemnation of the Moralist
For on whatever grounds6 you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know11 that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 2:8 but17 wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition18 and do not obey the truth but follow19 unrighteousness.
but23 glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.
2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
They29 show that the work of the law is written30 in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend31 them,32
God will judge33 the secrets of human hearts,
The Condemnation of the Jew
therefore41 you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself?
2:28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, 2:29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart51 by the Spirit52 and not by the letter.53 This person’s54 praise is not from people but from God.
Let God be proven true, and every human being5 shown up as a liar,6
The Condemnation of the World
Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
“There is no one righteous, not even one, 3:11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. 3:12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.
ruin and misery are in their paths, 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.”20
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”21
so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
For no one is declared righteous before him23 by the works of the law,
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
But they are justified29 freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
as the mercy seat33 accessible through faith.
because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.
Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!
Abraham believed God, and it was credited4 to him as righteousness.”5
But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous,7 his faith is credited as righteousness.
“Blessed8 are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 4:8 blessed is the one9 against whom the Lord will never count10 sin
but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
who is the father of us all
the God who29 makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.30
