God Remains Faithful

1What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2Much, every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God. 3For what if some did not believe? shall their incredulity make the faithfulness of God of no effect?

4God 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"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: 6for then how shall God judge the world? 7"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? 8and 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.

There Is No One Righteous

9"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"There is none righteous, no not one;

11there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

12They are all gone out of the way, they are become unprofitable, there is none that practiseth goodness, no not one.

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

14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15their feet are swift to shed blood:

16destruction and misery are in their ways:

17and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

18Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,

19it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God. 20Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Righteousness through Faith in Christ
(Philippians 3:1–11)

21But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets; 22and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; for there is no difference; 23for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; 24being justified freely by his grace, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25whom 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; 26for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

27Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith. 28Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law: 29or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? 30surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.