Romans 3
1 What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?
What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what, though some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, (logos) and might overcome when you are judged.
5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shall we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And (as we are blamed, and as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.
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.
9 What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,
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;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become useless; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feete are swift to shead blood.
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and calamity are in their waies,
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.
And the way of peace have they not known:
18 The feare of God is not before their eies.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that whatsoeuer ye Lawe saieth, it saieth it to them which are vnder ye Law, that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world be subiect to the iudgement of God.
Now we know that what things whatsoever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.
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.
21 But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue.
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:
23 For there is no difference: for all haue sinned, and are depriued of the glorie of God,
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 And are iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus,
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed,
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;
26 Through the patience of God, to shewe at this time his righteousnesse, that hee might be iust, and a iustifier of him which is of the faith of Iesus.
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
27 Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 God, is he the God of the Iewes onely, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
