Much in every way: chiefly because they were entrusted with the Words of God.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned within the Law will be judged through the Law

for when Gentiles, who do not have the Law, by nature do the things in the Law, these, although not having the Law, are a law to themselves,

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Law,

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, I said, You are gods.

If He called them gods, to whom the Word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Moreover, that the Word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain those who are under the Law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under the Law toward Christ), that I might gain those who are without law;

But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the Law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.

to redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Tell me, you who desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Let it not be! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: That You may be found just in Your words, and may win the case when You are judged.

For ever since the creation of the world the unseen things of Him are clearly perceived, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judges, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

He guards the feet of His saints, but the wicked are silent in darkness. For man does not prevail by might.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

If one wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

The upright see it and rejoice, and all iniquity stops its mouth.

so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

So he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

And the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

that no flesh should boast in His presence.

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judges, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things.

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those believing.