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24 but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.
25 For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)—
26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.
27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith.
28 For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.
29 Does God belong to the Jews alone? Does he not belong to the heathen too? Of course he belongs to the heathen too;
30 there is but one God, and he will make the circumcised upright on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised upright because of theirs."