Made Right with God by Faith, Not Works

1 If anyone considers them one by one in sincerity, he will understand the magnificence of the gifts given by Him. 2 For from Jacob come all the priests and levites who minister at the altar of God; from him comes the Lord Jesus according to the flesh;⁠a from him come kings and rulers and governors in the line of Judah; and the rest of his tribes are held in no small honor, since God promised, “Your descendants shall be as the stars of heaven.” 3 So they were all glorified and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous deeds they did, but through His will. 4 And so we, having been called through His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves or through our own wisdom or understanding or piety or works that we did in holiness of heart, but through faith, by which the Almighty God justified all men who have lived from the beginning; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.