3:1 | What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? |
3:2 | Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God. |
3:3 | For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? |
3:4 | By no means: verily, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged. |
3:5 | But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) |
3:6 | By no means: for then how shall God judge the world? |
3:7 | For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
3:8 | And not [rather], (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,)Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just. |
3:9 | What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no way: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; |
3:10 | As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: |
3:11 | There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God. |
3:12 | They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
3:13 | Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: |
3:14 | Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: |
3:15 | Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: |
3:16 | Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: |
3:17 | And the way of peace have they not known: |
3:18 | There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
3:19 | Now we know that whatever 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. |
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. |
3:21 | But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
3:22 | Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: |
3:23 | For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; |
3:24 | Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: |
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; |
3:26 | To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. |
3:27 | Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
3:28 | Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. |
3:29 | [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
3:30 | Seeing [it is] one God, who shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
3:31 | Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but, we establish the law. |