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16The plans of the mind belong to mortals,
   but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
² All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes,
   but the Lord weighs the spirit.
³ Commit your work to the Lord,
   and your plans will be established.
⁴ The Lord has made everything for its purpose,
   even the wicked for the day of trouble.
⁵ All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord;
   be assured, they will not go unpunished.
⁶ By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
   and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil.
⁷ When the ways of people please the Lord,
   he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.
⁸ Better is a little with righteousness
   than large income with injustice.
⁹ The human mind plans the way,
   but the Lord directs the steps.

Jews and Gentiles Are Saved by Faith

15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; ¹⁶yet we know that a person is justified^* not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.^* And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ,^* and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law. ¹⁷But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. ¹⁹For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; ²⁰and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,^* who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification^* comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.