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Romans 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 So what difference does it make who's a Jew and who isn't, who has been trained in God's ways and who hasn't?

2 As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference - but not the difference so many have assumed.

3 So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn't abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness?

4 Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn't faze you.

5 But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God's rightdoing, shouldn't we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don't even make a dent in his good words, isn't it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up.

6 The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn't do the straightening?

7 It's simply perverse to say, "If my lies serve to show off God's truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I'm doing God a favor."

8 Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, "The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let's just do it!" That's pure slander, as I'm sure you'll agree. We're All in the Same Sinking Boat

9 So where does that put us? Do we Jews get a better break than the others? Not really. Basically, all of us, whether insiders or outsiders, start out in identical conditions, which is to say that we all start out as sinners. Scripture leaves no doubt about it:

10 There's nobody living right, not even one,

11 nobody who knows the score, nobody alert for God.

12 They've all taken the wrong turn; they've all wandered down blind alleys. No one's living right; I can't find a single one.

13 Their throats are gaping graves, their tongues slick as mud slides. Every word they speak is tinged with poison.

14 They open their mouths and pollute the air.

15 They race for the honor of sinner-of-the-year,

16 litter the land with heartbreak and ruin,

17 Don't know the first thing about living with others.

18 They never give God the time of day.

19 This makes it clear, doesn't it, that whatever is written in these Scriptures is not what God says about others but to us to whom these Scriptures were addressed in the first place! And it's clear enough, isn't it, that we're sinners, every one of us, in the same sinking boat with everybody else?

20 Our involvement with God's revelation doesn't put us right with God. What it does is force us to face our complicity in everyone else's sin.

21 But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened.

22 The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this.

23 Since we've compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us,

24 God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.

25 God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public - to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured.

26 This is not only clear, but it's now - this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.

27 So where does that leave our proud Jewish insider claims and counterclaims? Canceled? Yes, canceled. What we've learned is this: God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does.

28 We've finally figured it out. Our lives get in step with God and all others by letting him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade.

29 And where does that leave our proud Jewish claim of having a corner on God? Also canceled. God is the God of outsider non-Jews as well as insider Jews.

30 How could it be otherwise since there is only one God? God sets right all who welcome his action and enter into it, both those who follow our religious system and those who have never heard of our religion.

31 But by shifting our focus from what we do to what God does, don't we cancel out all our careful keeping of the rules and ways God commanded? Not at all. What happens, in fact, is that by putting that entire way of life in its proper place, we confirm it.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 quid ergo amplius est Iudaeo aut quae utilitas circumcisionis

2 multum per omnem modum primum quidem quia credita sunt illis eloquia Dei

3 quid enim si quidam illorum non crediderunt numquid incredulitas illorum fidem Dei evacuabit absit

4 est autem Deus verax omnis autem homo mendax sicut scriptum est ut iustificeris in sermonibus tuis et vincas cum iudicaris

5 si autem iniquitas nostra iustitiam Dei commendat quid dicemus numquid iniquus Deus qui infert iram secundum hominem dico

6 absit alioquin quomodo iudicabit Deus mundum

7 si enim veritas Dei in meo mendacio abundavit in gloriam ipsius quid adhuc et ego tamquam peccator iudicor

8 et non sicut blasphemamur et sicut aiunt nos quidam dicere faciamus mala ut veniant bona quorum damnatio iusta est

9 quid igitur praecellimus eos nequaquam causati enim sumus Iudaeos et Graecos omnes sub peccato esse

10 sicut scriptum est quia non est iustus quisquam

11 non est intellegens non est requirens Deum

12 omnes declinaverunt simul inutiles facti sunt non est qui faciat bonum non est usque ad unum

13 sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum linguis suis dolose agebant venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum

14 quorum os maledictione et amaritudine plenum est

15 veloces pedes eorum ad effundendum sanguinem

16 contritio et infelicitas in viis eorum

17 et viam pacis non cognoverunt

18 non est timor Dei ante oculos eorum

19 scimus autem quoniam quaecumque lex loquitur his qui in lege sunt loquitur ut omne os obstruatur et subditus fiat omnis mundus Deo

20 quia ex operibus legis non iustificabitur omnis caro coram illo per legem enim cognitio peccati

21 nunc autem sine lege iustitia Dei manifestata est testificata a lege et prophetis

22 iustitia autem Dei per fidem Iesu Christi super omnes qui credunt non enim est distinctio

23 omnes enim peccaverunt et egent gloriam Dei

24 iustificati gratis per gratiam ipsius per redemptionem quae est in Christo Iesu

25 quem proposuit Deus propitiationem per fidem in sanguine ipsius ad ostensionem iustitiae suae propter remissionem praecedentium delictorum

26 in sustentatione Dei ad ostensionem iustitiae eius in hoc tempore ut sit ipse iustus et iustificans eum qui ex fide est Iesu

27 ubi est ergo gloriatio exclusa est per quam legem factorum non sed per legem fidei

28 arbitramur enim iustificari hominem per fidem sine operibus legis

29 an Iudaeorum Deus tantum nonne et gentium immo et gentium

30 quoniam quidem unus Deus qui iustificabit circumcisionem ex fide et praeputium per fidem

31 legem ergo destruimus per fidem absit sed legem statuimus