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The Book of Romans, Chapter 3, Verse 31

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Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
King James Version
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
American Standard Version
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
New English Translation
For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
World English Bible
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
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What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.
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For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
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[Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
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Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
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How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.