Romans Chapter 3

3 : 1 What advantage then has 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 faith of God without effect?

3 : 4 God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

3 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)

3 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

3 : 7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

3 : 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.

3 : 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;

3 : 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

3 : 11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

3 : 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.

3 : 13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; 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 what things soever the law said, it said 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 without the law is manifested, 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 on 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 Christ Jesus:

3 : 25 Whom God has 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 might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.

3 : 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

3 : 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without 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, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

3 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish the law.