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23 ) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
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24 ) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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25 ) Whom God has 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,
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26 ) To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
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27 ) Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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28 ) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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29 ) Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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30 ) Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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31 ) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.