Romans 3
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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.
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