Romans 3
1 What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Much, in every way. First of all, because the words of God were entrusted to them.
3 What then, if some did not believe? Will their unbelief nullify God's faithfulness?
4 Absolutely not! Let God be true, and every person a liar, as it is written: “So that you may be shown to be right in your words and prevail when you are judged.”
5 But if our injustice highlights God's justice, what shall we say? Is God unjust when he brings wrath? I am speaking in human terms.
6 Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7 But if God's truth, through my lie, has overflowed to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
8 And why not say, as we are slandered and as some claim we say: “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
9 What then? Are we at an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin.
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.”
11 “There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good, not even one.
13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues; the poison of vipers is under their lips.
14 Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 And they have not known the way of peace.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
20 For no one will be declared righteous before him by works of the Law, since through the Law comes knowledge of sin.
21 But now, apart from the Law, God's justice has been revealed, attested by the Law and the Prophets.
22 It is God's justice through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction.
23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
24 They are declared righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
25 God presented him as an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left unpunished the sins committed previously,
26 during God's time of patience, and to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so that he might be just and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? The law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 For we conclude that a person is declared righteous by faith, apart from works of the Law.
29 Or is God only the God of the Jews? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles too.
30 For God is one, and he will declare the circumcised righteous by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the Law.
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