Romans 3
3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God.
3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief
make the faith of God without effect?
3:4 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.
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?
(I speak as a man)
3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through
my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
3:8 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.
3:9 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;
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no,
not one:
3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none
that seeketh after God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their
tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
3:19 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.
3:20 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.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the
law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3:22 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:
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 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;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without the deeds of the law.
3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also
of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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