Romains 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 unrighteousness 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.