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