romiṇaḥ 3
1 aparañca yihūdinaḥ kiṁ śreṣṭhatvaṁ? tathā tvakchedasya vā kiṁ phalaṁ?
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2 sarvvathā bahūni phalāni santi, viśeṣata īśvarasya śāstraṁ tebhyo'dīyata|
Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3 kaiścid aviśvasane kṛte teṣām aviśvasanāt kim īśvarasya viśvāsyatāyā hānirutpatsyate?
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
4 kenāpi prakāreṇa nahi| yadyapi sarvve manuṣyā mithyāvādinastathāpīśvaraḥ satyavādī| śāstre yathā likhitamāste, atastvantu svavākyena nirddoṣo hi bhaviṣyasi| vicāre caiva niṣpāpo bhaviṣyasi na saṁśayaḥ|
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.”
5 asmākam anyāyena yadīśvarasya nyāyaḥ prakāśate tarhi kiṁ vadiṣyāmaḥ? ahaṁ mānuṣāṇāṁ kathāmiva kathāṁ kathayāmi, īśvaraḥ samucitaṁ daṇḍaṁ dattvā kim anyāyī bhaviṣyati?
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.
6 itthaṁ na bhavatu, tathā satīśvaraḥ kathaṁ jagato vicārayitā bhaviṣyati?
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
7 mama mithyāvākyavadanād yadīśvarasya satyatvena tasya mahimā varddhate tarhi kasmādahaṁ vicāre'parādhitvena gaṇyo bhavāmi?
However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
8 maṅgalārthaṁ pāpamapi karaṇīyamiti vākyaṁ tvayā kuto nocyate? kintu yairucyate te nitāntaṁ daṇḍasya pātrāṇi bhavanti; tathāpi tadvākyam asmābhirapyucyata ityasmākaṁ glāniṁ kurvvantaḥ kiyanto lokā vadanti|
Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
9 anyalokebhyo vayaṁ kiṁ śreṣṭhāḥ? kadācana nahi yato yihūdino 'nyadeśinaśca sarvvaeva pāpasyāyattā ityasya pramāṇaṁ vayaṁ pūrvvam adadāma|
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.
10 lipi ryathāste, naikopi dhārmmiko janaḥ|
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 tathā jñānīśvarajñānī mānavaḥ kopi nāsti hi|
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12 vimārgagāminaḥ sarvve sarvve duṣkarmmakāriṇaḥ| eko janopi no teṣāṁ sādhukarmma karoti ca|
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
13 tathā teṣāntu vai kaṇṭhā anāvṛtaśmaśānavat| stutivādaṁ prakurvvanti jihvābhiste tu kevalaṁ| teṣāmoṣṭhasya nimne tu viṣaṁ tiṣṭhati sarppavat|
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
14 mukhaṁ teṣāṁ hi śāpena kapaṭena ca pūryyate|
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 raktapātāya teṣāṁ tu padāni kṣipragāni ca|
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 pathi teṣāṁ manuṣyāṇāṁ nāśaḥ kleśaśca kevalaḥ|
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
17 te janā nahi jānanti panthānaṁ sukhadāyinaṁ|
and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 parameśād bhayaṁ yattat taccakṣuṣoragocaraṁ|
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 vyavasthāyāṁ yadyallikhati tad vyavasthādhīnān lokān uddiśya likhatīti vayaṁ jānīmaḥ| tato manuṣyamātro niruttaraḥ san īśvarasya sākṣād aparādhī bhavati|
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.
20 ataeva vyavasthānurūpaiḥ karmmabhiḥ kaścidapi prāṇīśvarasya sākṣāt sapuṇyīkṛto bhavituṁ na śakṣyati yato vyavasthayā pāpajñānamātraṁ jāyate|
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
21 kintu vyavasthāyāḥ pṛthag īśvareṇa deyaṁ yat puṇyaṁ tad vyavasthāyā bhaviṣyadvādigaṇasya ca vacanaiḥ pramāṇīkṛtaṁ sad idānīṁ prakāśate|
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
22 yīśukhrīṣṭe viśvāsakaraṇād īśvareṇa dattaṁ tat puṇyaṁ sakaleṣu prakāśitaṁ sat sarvvān viśvāsinaḥ prati varttate|
And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
23 teṣāṁ kopi prabhedo nāsti, yataḥ sarvvaeva pāpina īśvarīyatejohīnāśca jātāḥ|
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 ta īśvarasyānugrahād mūlyaṁ vinā khrīṣṭakṛtena paritrāṇena sapuṇyīkṛtā bhavanti|
and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
25 yasmāt svaśoṇitena viśvāsāt pāpanāśako balī bhavituṁ sa eva pūrvvam īśvareṇa niścitaḥ, ittham īśvarīyasahiṣṇutvāt purākṛtapāpānāṁ mārjjanakaraṇe svīyayāthārthyaṁ tena prakāśyate,
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.
26 varttamānakālīyamapi svayāthārthyaṁ tena prakāśyate, aparaṁ yīśau viśvāsinaṁ sapuṇyīkurvvannapi sa yāthārthikastiṣṭhati|
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.
27 tarhi kutrātmaślāghā? sā dūrīkṛtā; kayā vyavasthayā? kiṁ kriyārūpavyavasthayā? itthaṁ nahi kintu tat kevalaviśvāsarūpayā vyavasthayaiva bhavati|
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
28 ataeva vyavasthānurūpāḥ kriyā vinā kevalena viśvāsena mānavaḥ sapuṇyīkṛto bhavituṁ śaknotītyasya rāddhāntaṁ darśayāmaḥ|
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
29 sa kiṁ kevalayihūdinām īśvaro bhavati? bhinnadeśinām īśvaro na bhavati? bhinnadeśināmapi bhavati;
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
30 yasmād eka īśvaro viśvāsāt tvakchedino viśvāsenātvakchedinaśca sapuṇyīkariṣyati|
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
31 tarhi viśvāsena vayaṁ kiṁ vyavasthāṁ lumpāma? itthaṁ na bhavatu vayaṁ vyavasthāṁ saṁsthāpayāma eva|
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
