Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew?
or what is the good of circumcision?
2 Great in
every way. First of all, because the Jews were
entrusted with God's utterances.
3 What follows
then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their
want of faith make God break faith?
4 Heaven forbid! God
must prove true, though every man prove a liar! As Scripture
says of God—
‘That thou mayest be pronounced righteous in what thou sayest,
And gain thy cause when men would judge thee.’ note
5 But what if our wrong-doing makes God's righteousness all the
clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I
can but speak as a man.)
6 Heaven forbid! Otherwise how
can God judge the world?
7 But, if my falsehood redounds to
the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent,
why am I, like others, still condemned as a sinner?
8 Why
should we not say—as some people slanderously assert
that we do say—‘Let us do evil that good may come’? The
condemnation of such men is indeed just!
9 What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to
others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and
Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.
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10 As Scripture says—
‘There is not even one who is righteous,
11
Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!
12
They have all gone astray; they have one and all become
depraved;
There is no one who is doing good—no, not one!’
13
‘Their throats are like opened graves;
They deceive with their tongues.’
‘The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,’
14
‘And their mouths are full of bitter curses.’
15
‘Swift are their feet to shed blood.
16
Distress and trouble dog their steps,
17
And the path of peace they do not know.’
18
‘The fear of God is not before their eyes.’ note
19 Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed
to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth
may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgement
of God.
20 For ‘no human being will be pronounced righteous
before God’ as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law
that shows what sin is. note
21 But now, quite apart from Law, the
Divine Righteousness stands revealed, and to it the Law and
22 the Prophets bear witness—the Divine Righteousness which
is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without
distinction, who believe in him.
23 For all have sinned, and all
fall short of God's glorious ideal,
24 but, in his loving-kindness,
are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance
found in Christ Jesus.
25 For God set him before the world, to
be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation
through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness,
and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins
that men had previously committed;
26 as a proof, I repeat, at
the present time, of his own righteousness, that he might be
righteous in our eyes, and might pronounce righteous the
man who takes his stand on faith in Jesus.
27 What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded.
By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No,
a Law requiring faith.
28 For we conclude that a man is
pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart
from obedience to Law.
29 Or can it be that God is the God
only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?
30 Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one God, and
he will pronounce those who are circumcised righteous as
the result of faith, and also those who are uncircumcised
on their showing the same faith.
31 Do we, then, use this
faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish
Law.
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Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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