13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. …
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? …
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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 flesh be justified.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In the former chapter the apostle had represented the state of the Gentile world to be as bad and black as the Jews were ready enough to pronounce it. And now, designing to show that the state of the Jews was very bad too, and their sin in many respects more aggravated, to prepare his way he sets himself in this part of the chapter to show that God would proceed upon equal terms of justice with Je…
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