LO - Romans - 3

3:1  What is the pre-eminence of the Jew, then? or what profit is there of circumcision?

3:2  Much, in every respect: chiefly, indeed, because they were intrusted with the Oracles of God.

3:3  For, what if some did not believe--will not their unbelief destroy the faithfulness of God?

3:4  By no means. But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou judgest."

3:5  But if our unrighteousness display the justice of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who inflicts vengeance? (I speak after the manner of men.)

3:6  By no means: otherwise, how shall God judge the world?

3:7  Still, if the truth of God has, through my lie, more abounded to his glory, why am I also yet condemned as a sinner--

3:8  and not because we have done evil that good may come, as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we teach--whose condemnation is just?

3:9  What then? Do we excel? Not at all. For we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles to be all under sin.

3:10  As it is written, "Surely there is none righteous; no, not one.

3:11  There is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God.

3:12  They are all gone out of the way: they are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good; there is not so much as one.

3:13  Their throat is an open sepulcher: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

3:14  their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

3:15  Their feet are swift to shed blood.

3:16  Destruction and misery lurk in their paths;

3:17  but the path of peace they have not known.

3:18  There is no fear of God before their eyes."

3:19  Now we know that whatever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be liable to punishment before God.

3:20  Wherefore, by works of law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; because through law is the knowledge of sin.

3:21  But now, a justification which is of God, without law, is exhibited, attested by the law and the prophets:

3:22  even a justification which is of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, for all, and upon all, who believe; for there is no difference.

3:23  For all, having sinned and come short of the glory of God,

3:24  are justified freely by his favor, through the redemption which is by Christ Jesus:

3:25  whom God has set forth a propitiatory, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his own justice, in passing by the sins which were before committed, through the forbearance of God:

3:26  for a demonstration, also, of his justice in the present time, in order that he may be just, when justifying him, who is of the faith of Jesus.

3:27  Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

3:28  We conclude, then, that by faith man is justified, without works of law.

3:29  Is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles, also? Yes, of the Gentiles, also.

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

3:31  Do we, then, make law useless through the faith? By no means: but we establish law.