Romans 3
1So then, what more is the Jew, or what is the usefulness of circumcision?
2Much in every way: First of all, certainly, because the eloquence of God was entrusted to them.
3But what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!
4For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”
5But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?
6(I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?
7For if the truth of God has abounded, through my falseness, unto his glory, why should I still be judged as such a sinner?
8And should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.
9What is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under sin,
10just as it was written: “There is no one who is just.
11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.
12All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
13Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
14Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
15Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16Grief and unhappiness are in their ways.
17And the way of peace they have not known.
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
20For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.
21But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.
22And the justice of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction.
23For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.
24We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,
26and by the forbearance of God, to reveal his justice in this time, so that he himself might be both the Just One and the Justifier of anyone who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.
27So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.
28For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
29Is God of the Jews only and not also of the Gentiles? On the contrary, of the Gentiles also.
30For One is the God who justifies circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.
31Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.
1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17And the way of peace have they not known:
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.