1What then is the advantage of the Yehudi? Or what is the value of the milah?
2Much in every way! For, koidem kol (in the first place), they are entrusted with the Divrei Hashem (the oracles, the words of G-d).
3So, where does that leave us? If some have disbelieved, has their lack of emunah annulled the ne'emanut (faithfulness, trustworthiness, reliability) of Hashem?
4Chas v'shalom (G-d forbid!) Let G-d be true and KOL HAADAM KOZEV (every man a liar).
5But if our unrighteousness brings out and highlights the Tzedek Olamim, the Tzidkat Hashem (the righteousness of G-d), what shall we say? Rhetorically speaking, is G-d unjust in inflicting Charon Af Hashem? (I speak from a human standpoint.)
6Chas v'shalom! (G-d forbid!) For then how could Hashem be HaShofet kol ha'Aretz?
7“But if the Emes Hashem (truth of G-d) has by my sheker overflowed to His kavod (glory), why am I still judged as a rashah (an evildoer)?”
8Why do we not say, as some speakers of lashon hora slanderously report us to say, “Let us do rah that tov might come of it”? The gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty) on them is well deserved.
9What then? Are we (Yehudim) better off? Not altogether. For we have now charged both Yehudim and non-Jews as all alike under HaChet (sin),
10As it is written, EIN TZADDIK BA'ARETZ, (There is none on earth righteous), not even one.
11There is none who has binah, there is none who seeks out G-d.
12All have turned aside, they have become altogether paskudneh, worthless; there is none who does good, there is none, not so much as one.
13Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips,
14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
15Their feet are swift when it comes to shefach dahm.
16Ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
17And the derech Shalom (the way of peace) they have not known.
18There is no yirat Shomayim (fear of G-d) before their eyes.
19Now we know that whatever the Gezetz (Law) says, it says to those under the Gezetz, in order that every mouth might be stopped and kol HaOlam Hazeh become ashem (guilty) and liable to the Mishpat Hashem.
20For by (the ransom), which is in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,
25Whom G-d set forth as a kapporah through emunah (faith) in the DAHM (G-d is righteous) Himself and the One who counts to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM
27Where then is boasting? ma'asim of gezetz.
29Or is Hashem G-d of the Yehudim only? Is Hashem not also G-d of the Nations? Ken, of non-Jews, too,
30Vi-bahlt (since), after all, Adonai echad (G-d is one). Therefore, He will consider to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM and acquit those of the milah on the ground of emunah and the “arelim” (uncircumcised ones) through that same emunah.
31Does it follow that we abolish Torah and make it invalid through emunah? Chas v'shalom! Aderaba (to the contrary), we uphold the Torah.
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