Romans 3:1-30 ▼

1 What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of the circumcision?

2 Much in every way. For first indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3 For what If some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

4 Never may it be! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it has been written: “So that You may be justified in Your words, and you will be victorious in Your judging.”

5 But if our unrighteousness proves God’s righteousness, what will we say? God, inflicting the wrath, is unrighteous? I speak according to man.

6 Never may it be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7 But if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 And is it not, as we are slandered and as some affirm us to say, “Let us do evil so that the good may come”? Their judgment is just.

9 What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we charged before both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin.

10 As it has been written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;

11 there is no one understanding; there is no one seeking out God.

12 All turned away; together they became worthless; there is none who is doing kindness, there is not even one.”

13 “Their throat is a grave having been opened; they keep practicing deceit with their tongues;” “the poison of vipers is under their lips,”

14 “of whom the mouth is full of cursing and of bitterness;”

15 “their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 ruin and misery are in their paths;

17 and a way of peace they did not know.”

18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that as much as the law says, it speaks to those in the law, so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be under judgment to God.

20 Therefore by works of the law, not any flesh will be justified before Him; for through the law is knowledge of sin.

21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified to by the Law and the Prophets.

22 And the righteousness of God is through faith from Jesus Christ toward all those believing. For there is no distinction,

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

25 whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins having taken place beforehand in the forbearance of God,

26 for the demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for Him to be just and justifying the one of the faith from Jesus.

27 Where then is the boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? That of works? No, but by the law of faith.

28 For we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law.

29 Or is He the God of Jews only, not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles,

30 since indeed God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the same faith.