which He promised before through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers shall be justified;

What, then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we before charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

(as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were;

And, as Isaiah has said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah."

But you??hy do you judge your brother? or you also??hy do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

The faith which you have, have to yourself before God. Happy is he that judges not himself in that which he approves.