Romans 3

¹Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

²Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

³For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

⁴May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”God 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 commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

⁶May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

⁸Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.And 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 way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.What 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 no one righteous; no, not one.As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹²They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴“whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood.Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways.Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁷The way of peace, they haven’t known.”And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.Now 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.

²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.Therefore 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 apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,Even 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 fall short of the glory of God;For 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;Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;Whom 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 demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

³⁰since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.