3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God.
3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect?
3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true,
but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be
justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what
shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
man)
3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:7 For
if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory;
why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
3:8 And not rather, (as we be
slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do
evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
3:9 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;
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have
used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
3:14 Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness:
3:15 Their feet are swift to shed
blood:
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
3:17 And the way
of peace have they not known:
3:18 There is no fear of God before
their eyes.
3:19 Now we know that what things soever 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.
3:20 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.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3:22 Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
3:23 For all
have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24 Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 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;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall
justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
