Romans 3

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? ²Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. ³For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God? ⁴God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. ⁵But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) ⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? ⁷But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? ⁸and why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just. ⁹What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; ¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; ¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God; ¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as 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 have they not known: ¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: ²⁰because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law comeththe knowledge of sin. ²¹But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; ²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵whom God set forth to bea propitiation, through faith, by his blood, to shew his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; ²⁶for the shewing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus. ²⁷Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith. ²⁸We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. ²⁹Or is God the Godof Jews only? is he not the Godof Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also: ³⁰if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. ³¹Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.