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⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

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⁸ For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:

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¹ To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

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² He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

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¹ A Song of degrees for Solomon.

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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² It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

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¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

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¹² When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

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¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

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¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

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¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

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¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

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¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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⁶ But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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²⁶ Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

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¹² I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

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¹⁹ They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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¹² Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

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¹³ When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

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¹⁴ Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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¹⁵ If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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¹⁶ None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

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¹⁷ Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

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¹⁸ When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

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¹⁹ But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

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¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

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²⁰ For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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⁷ But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

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⁸ And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

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⁹ Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

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⁹ And he spake spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

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¹⁰ So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, say, We are unprofitable servants: servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

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¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

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¹² I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

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¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

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¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

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³⁹ And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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¹ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

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² For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

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³ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

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⁴ Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

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⁵ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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⁶ Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

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⁷ Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

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⁹ 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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³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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⁶ And if by grace, then is it no more more of works: otherwise grace is no more more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more more grace: otherwise work is no more more work.

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²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

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

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²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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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;

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²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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

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²⁹ Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

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³⁰ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

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³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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¹⁰ How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

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¹² And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

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¹³ For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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¹⁴ For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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¹⁵ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

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¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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¹⁷ As it is written, written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

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¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

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²⁰ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

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²¹ And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

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²² And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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³¹ But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

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³² Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; stumblingstone;

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¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

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³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

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¹ O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

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² This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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³ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

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⁴ Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

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⁵ He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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⁶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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⁷ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

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⁸ And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

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⁹ So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

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⁹ But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

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² Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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⁴ Christ is become of no effect unto you, you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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⁶ For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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¹⁶ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no no flesh be justified.

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¹⁹ For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

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²¹ I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.