|
3:1 |
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit of circumcision? |
|
3:2 |
Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God. |
|
3:3 |
For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
|
3:4 |
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. |
|
3:5 |
But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.) |
|
3:6 |
By no means: for then how shall God judge the world? |
|
3:7 |
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
|
3:8 |
And not (as we are 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 ? 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 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 an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips: |
|
3:14 |
Whose mouth full of cursing and bitterness. |
|
3:15 |
Their feet swift to shed blood. |
|
3:16 |
Destruction and misery 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 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. |
|
3:20 |
Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law the knowledge of sin. |
|
3:21 |
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets; |
|
3:22 |
Even the righteousness of God, by faith of Jesus Christ to 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 Jesus Christ: |
|
3:25 |
Whom God hath set forth 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, , at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. |
|
3:27 |
Where boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; 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 |
the God of the Jews only? not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
|
3:30 |
Seeing one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
|
3:31 |
Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law. |
|