Romans 3
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of
God.
3 For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none
effect the faithfulness of God?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when
thou comest into judgment.
5 But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we
say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of
men.)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also
still judged as a sinner?
8 and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say),
Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the
charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is
none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
13 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:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that
are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be
brought under the judgment of God:
20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for
through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them
that believe; for there is no distinction;
23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus:
25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to
show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime,
in the forbearance of God;
26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that
he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works?
Nay: but by a law of faith.
28 We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of
the law.
29 Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea,
of Gentiles also:
30 if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and
the uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we
establish the law.