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Romans 3:17-30 Modern English Version (MEV)

17. and they do not know the way of peace.”

18. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19. Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and all the world may become accountable to God.

20. Therefore by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

21. But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.

22. This righteousness of God comes through faith in ­Jesus Christ to all and upon all who believe, for there is no distinction.

23. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

24. being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ ­Jesus,

25. whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith, in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins previously committed,

26. to prove His righteousness at this present time so that He might be just and be the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

28. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

29. Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

30. seeing it is one God, who shall justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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