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Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

And the way of peace have they not known:

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

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

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?