Romans 3

1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

What then is the advantage of the Jew? or what the benefit of circumcision?

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

For what? If some were unfaithful, shall their unfaithfulness make God unfaithful?

4 By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Far be it! yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, “That thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art arraigned.”

5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

6 By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?

Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

8 And not [rather] (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.

9 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;

What then? Are we better than others? By no means! For we have already brought a charge both against Jews and Greeks, 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 understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

13 Their throat [is] an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have practised deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips.

14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood.

Swift are their feet to shed blood;

16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

destruction and misery are in their ways;

17 And the way of peace have they not known.

and the way of peace they know not.

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever things 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.

Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

20 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.

Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;

But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony,

22 Even the righteousness of God, [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference:

even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ:

being accepted as righteous freely, by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

25 Whom 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;

whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;

26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.

in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, so that he may be righteous, and accept as righteous him who hath faith.

27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

We conclude therefore, that a man is accepted as righteous through faith, without the works of the Law.

29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Or is God [[the God]] of Jews alone? Is he not also the God of gentiles? Yea, of gentiles also.

30 Seeing [it is] one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Seeing there is but one God, who will accept the circumcised as righteous by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.

Do we then make void the Law through faith? Far be it! On the contrary, we establish the Law.