Romans - 3

1 - What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

2 - Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3 - For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

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.

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)

6 - God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

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?

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.

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;

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 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 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 saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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.

21 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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:

23 - For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ - Jesus - :

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;

26 - To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus - .

27 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 - Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

29 - Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

30 - Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

31 - Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.