Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.