Romans 3 : King James Version
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3 1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit
is there of circumcision? 2Much every way: chiefly,
because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3For
what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of
God without effect? 4God 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. 5But if our unrighteousness commend the
righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who
taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6God forbid: for
then how shall God judge the world? 7For if the truth of
God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I
also judged as a sinner? 8And 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. 9What
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; 10As
it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not 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 saith
to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21But now
the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus: 25Whom God hath 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; 26To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus. 27Where is boasting then? It is
excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law. 29Is he the God of the Jews
only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31Do
we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.