For whenever the Gentiles,<n id="1" /> who do not have the law, do by nature<n id="2" /> the things required by the law,<n id="3" /> these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

Do we then nullify<n id="1" /> the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead<n id="2" /> we uphold the law.p>

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression<n id="1" /> either.

but Israel even though pursuing<n id="1" /> a law of righteousness<n id="2" /> did not attain it.<n id="3" />

For we consider that a person<n id="1" /> is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.<n id="2" />

For all who have sinned apart from the law<n id="1" /> will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.<n id="1" />

And will not the physically uncircumcised man<n id="1" /> who keeps the law judge you who, despite<n id="2" /> the written code<n id="3" /> and circumcision, transgress the law?

For <i>no one is declared righteous before himi><n id="1" /> by the works of the law,<n id="2" /> for through the law comes<n id="3" /> the knowledge of sin.

But now<n id="1" /> apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets)<n id="2" /> has been disclosed &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Where, then, is boasting?<n id="1" /> It is excluded! By what principle?<n id="2" /> Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

for before the law was given,<n id="1" /> sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin<n id="2" /> when there is no law.

<p class="bodytext">What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I<n id="1" /> would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else<n id="2" /> if the law had not said, &#8220;<b><i>Do not coveti>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

<p class="bodytext">For circumcision<n id="1" /> has its value if you practice the law, but<n id="2" /> if you break the law,<n id="3" /> your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her<n id="1" /> husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.<n id="2" />

For the law of the life-giving Spirit<n id="1" /> in Christ Jesus has set you<n id="2" /> free from the law of sin and death.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law<n id="1" /> and boast of your relationship to God<n id="2" />