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Romans 3

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1 What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision?
1 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?
2 Much in every way; chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of God.
2 Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?
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."
4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”
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.)
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
6 God forbid! For then how shall God judge the world?
6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God through my lie hath abounded more unto His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
8 And why not say rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come"? Their damnation is just!
8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise! For we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.
9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.
11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
12 They have all gone from the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
13 "Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of asps is under their lips,"
13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.”“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”
14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 destruction and misery are in their ways,
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace have they not known."
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
22 even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,
22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,
23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
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.
24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25 Him 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;
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
26 to declare, I say, at this time, His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
30 seeing it is one God who shall justify the Circumcision by faith, and Uncircumcision through faith.
30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid! Yea, we establish the law.
31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
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