Romans 3
1 What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?
What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the profit 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 they were intrusted with 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 incredulity make the faithfulness of God of no 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 acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.
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 confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:
6 God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?
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?
"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, 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 why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation 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 the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
"There is none righteous, no not one;
11 There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh 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 become unprofitable, there is none that practiseth goodness, 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 sepulchre: 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 they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."
18 The feare of God is not before their eies.
Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,
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.
it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of 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.
Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: 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, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested 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.
and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; 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, because of 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 hath appointed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, in the remission of past sins, according to 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.
for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.
Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: 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 works 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.
or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles?
30 For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.
surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also 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 the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.
