Romans 3

1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?● 2Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.● 3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?● 4God 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.● 5But 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.)● 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?● 7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?● 8and 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.● 9What 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;● 10as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;● 11There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;● 12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:● 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:● 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:● 15Their feet are swift to shed blood;● 16Destruction and misery are in their ways;● 17And the way of peace have they not known:● 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.● 19Now 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:● 20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law `cometh' the knowledge of sin.● 21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;● 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;● 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;● 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:● 25whom 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;● 26for 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.● 27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.● 28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.● 29Or is God `the God' of Jews only? is he not `the God' of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:● 30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.● 31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.●