For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast; but not before God.

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

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

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.