3 21 BUT NOW, quite independently of law. God's justice has been brought to light. The Law and the prophets both bear witness to it: 3 22 it is God's way of righting wrong, effective through faith in Christ for all who have such faith—all, without distinction. 3 23 For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine splendour, 3 24 and all are justified by God's free grace alone, through his act of liberation in the person of Christ Jesus. 3 25 For God designed him to be the means of expiating sin by his sacrificial death, effective through faith. God meant by this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had overlooked the sins of the past— 3 26 to demonstrate his justice now in the present, showing that he is himself just and also justifies any man who puts his faith in Jesus.
3 27 What room then is left for human pride? It is excluded. And on what principle? The keeping of the law would not exclude it, but faith does. 3 28 For our argument is that a man is justified by faith quite apart from success in keeping the law. 3 29 Do you suppose God is the God of the Jews alone? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Certainly, of Gentiles also, if it be true that God is one. 3 30 And he will therefore justify both the circumcised in virtue of their faith, and the uncircumcised through their faith. 3 31 Does this mean that we are using faith to undermine law? By no means: we are placing law itself on a firmer footing.