For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.

For if Abraham was. justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God.

and, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us,

And as Isaiah said before: Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ.

Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are noted among the apostles, who, also, were in Christ before me.