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Romans 3
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words (note: Or the oracles) of God.
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge (note: Or when You are judged; Psalm 51:4 (see also LXX)).”
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
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.
Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved (note: Gr. charged) both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one (note: Psalm 14:1–3 and Psalm 53:1–3 (see also LXX)) who does good, not even one.”
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit (note: Psalm 5:9).” “The venom of vipers is on their lips (note: Psalm 140:3).”
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness (note: Psalm 10:7 (see also LXX)).”
And the way of peace have they not known:
and the way of peace they have not known (note: Isaiah 59:7–8 (see also LXX)).”
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
“There is no fear of God before their eyes (note: Psalm 36:1).”
Now we know that what things soever 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 (note: Or, subject to the judgment of God).
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
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.
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Whom God hath set forth (note: Or, foreordained) to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission (note: Or, passing over) of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.