Godbey - Romans - 3

3:1  Then what more belongs to the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

3:2  Much every way. For indeed, in the first place, the oracles of God were committed unto them.

3:3  For what if some did not believe? whether will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

3:4  it could not be so: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as indeed it has been written, In order that you may be justified in your words, and shall prevail, in your judgment.

3:5  But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust administering wrath? I speak according to a man.

3:6  It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

3:7  And if the truth of God through my falsehood abounded unto His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

3:8  are we not indeed thus traduced, and as some say we speak, that, Let us do evil in order that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

3:9  Then what? are we the better? By no means: for we have proven already that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

3:10  as has been written, There is no one good, not one:

3:11  there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;

3:12  all have gone away, they have all together become unprofitable; there is no one who is doing good, there is 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  Whose feet are swift to shed blood:

3:16  destruction and misery are in their ways:

3:17  and they have not known the way of peace.

3:18  The fear of God is not before their eyes.

3:19  But we know that so many things as the law speaks, it says to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become guilty before God.

3:20  Therefore no flesh shall be justified by works of law: for through law there is a perfect knowledge of sin.

3:21  And now the righteousness of God without law has been made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

3:22  but the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ is unto all who believe: for there is no difference,

3:23  for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

3:24  being freely justified by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

3:25  whom God sent forth an expiation through faith in his blood, unto the manifestation of His righteousness through the remission of the sins which are passed,

3:26  in the forbearance of God; unto the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, so that he is just, and justifying him who is of the faith of Jesus.

3:27  Then where is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.

3:28  For we conclude that a man is justified by faith without works of law.

3:29  Whether is he the God of the Jews only? is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yea, also of the Gentiles:

3:30  truly there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

3:31  Then do we make void the law through faith? It could not be so: but we establish the law.