Romans 3

Romans 3 (American Standard Version)

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.