16. Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17. And the way of peace have they not known.
18. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19. Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20. Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;
22. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference:
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 Jesus Christ:
25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth 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 deeds of the law.
29. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: