Romans 3
1 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
aparanjca yihUdinaH kiM zrESThatvaM? tathA tvakchEdasya vA kiM phalaM?
2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
sarvvathA bahUni phalAni santi, vizESata Izvarasya zAstraM tEbhyO'dIyata|
3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
kaizcid avizvasanE kRtE tESAm avizvasanAt kim Izvarasya vizvAsyatAyA hAnirutpatsyatE?
4 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.”
kEnApi prakArENa nahi| yadyapi sarvvE manuSyA mithyAvAdinastathApIzvaraH satyavAdI| zAstrE yathA likhitamAstE, atastvantu svavAkyEna nirddOSO hi bhaviSyasi| vicArE caiva niSpApO bhaviSyasi na saMzayaH|
5 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.
asmAkam anyAyEna yadIzvarasya nyAyaH prakAzatE tarhi kiM vadiSyAmaH? ahaM mAnuSANAM kathAmiva kathAM kathayAmi, IzvaraH samucitaM daNPaM dattvA kim anyAyI bhaviSyati?
6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
itthaM na bhavatu, tathA satIzvaraH kathaM jagatO vicArayitA bhaviSyati?
7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
mama mithyAvAkyavadanAd yadIzvarasya satyatvEna tasya mahimA varddhatE tarhi kasmAdahaM vicArE'parAdhitvEna gaNyO bhavAmi?
8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
maggalArthaM pApamapi karaNIyamiti vAkyaM tvayA kutO nOcyatE? kintu yairucyatE tE nitAntaM daNPasya pAtrANi bhavanti; tathApi tadvAkyam asmAbhirapyucyata ityasmAkaM glAniM kurvvantaH kiyantO lOkA vadanti|
9 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.
anyalOkEbhyO vayaM kiM zrESThAH? kadAcana nahi yatO yihUdinO 'nyadEzinazca sarvvaEva pApasyAyattA ityasya pramANaM vayaM pUrvvam adadAma|
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
lipi ryathAstE, naikOpi dhArmmikO janaH|
11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
tathA jnjAnIzvarajnjAnI mAnavaH kOpi nAsti hi|
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
vimArgagAminaH sarvvE sarvvE duSkarmmakAriNaH| EkO janOpi nO tESAM sAdhukarmma karOti ca|
13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
tathA tESAntu vai kaNThA anAvRtazmazAnavat| stutivAdaM prakurvvanti jihvAbhistE tu kEvalaM| tESAmOSThasya nimnE tu viSaM tiSThati sarppavat|
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
mukhaM tESAM hi zApEna kapaTEna ca pUryyatE|
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
raktapAtAya tESAM tu padAni kSipragAni ca|
16 ruin and misery lie in their wake,
pathi tESAM manuSyANAM nAzaH klEzazca kEvalaH|
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
tE janA nahi jAnanti panthAnaM sukhadAyinaM|
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
paramEzAd bhayaM yattat taccakSuSOragOcaraM|
19 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.
vyavasthAyAM yadyallikhati tad vyavasthAdhInAn lOkAn uddizya likhatIti vayaM jAnImaH| tatO manuSyamAtrO niruttaraH san Izvarasya sAkSAd aparAdhI bhavati|
20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
ataEva vyavasthAnurUpaiH karmmabhiH kazcidapi prANIzvarasya sAkSAt sapuNyIkRtO bhavituM na zakSyati yatO vyavasthayA pApajnjAnamAtraM jAyatE|
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
kintu vyavasthAyAH pRthag IzvarENa dEyaM yat puNyaM tad vyavasthAyA bhaviSyadvAdigaNasya ca vacanaiH pramANIkRtaM sad idAnIM prakAzatE|
22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
yIzukhrISTE vizvAsakaraNAd IzvarENa dattaM tat puNyaM sakalESu prakAzitaM sat sarvvAn vizvAsinaH prati varttatE|
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
tESAM kOpi prabhEdO nAsti, yataH sarvvaEva pApina IzvarIyatEjOhInAzca jAtAH|
24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
ta IzvarasyAnugrahAd mUlyaM vinA khrISTakRtEna paritrANEna sapuNyIkRtA bhavanti|
25 God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
yasmAt svazONitEna vizvAsAt pApanAzakO balI bhavituM sa Eva pUrvvam IzvarENa nizcitaH, ittham IzvarIyasahiSNutvAt purAkRtapApAnAM mArjjanakaraNE svIyayAthArthyaM tEna prakAzyatE,
26 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.
varttamAnakAlIyamapi svayAthArthyaM tEna prakAzyatE, aparaM yIzau vizvAsinaM sapuNyIkurvvannapi sa yAthArthikastiSThati|
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
tarhi kutrAtmazlAghA? sA dUrIkRtA; kayA vyavasthayA? kiM kriyArUpavyavasthayA? itthaM nahi kintu tat kEvalavizvAsarUpayA vyavasthayaiva bhavati|
28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
ataEva vyavasthAnurUpAH kriyA vinA kEvalEna vizvAsEna mAnavaH sapuNyIkRtO bhavituM zaknOtItyasya rAddhAntaM darzayAmaH|
29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
sa kiM kEvalayihUdinAm IzvarO bhavati? bhinnadEzinAm IzvarO na bhavati? bhinnadEzinAmapi bhavati;
30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
yasmAd Eka IzvarO vizvAsAt tvakchEdinO vizvAsEnAtvakchEdinazca sapuNyIkariSyati|
31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
tarhi vizvAsEna vayaM kiM vyavasthAM lumpAma? itthaM na bhavatu vayaM vyavasthAM saMsthApayAma Eva|
