The Bible in Basic English BBE
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16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;
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ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
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and the way of peace they do not know.”
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
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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 the whole world held accountable to God.
20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
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But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
22 That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
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This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,
23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
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and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25 Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
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God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
26 And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
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he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
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