MKJV - Romans - 3

3:1  Then what is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

3:2  Much, by every way! Chiefly, indeed, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3:3  For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

3:4  Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

3:5  But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)

3:6  Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world?

3:7  For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner?

3:8  And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

3:9  What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

3:10  as it is written: "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 have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

3:13  "Their throat is an open grave, 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  "their feet are swift to shed blood;

3:16  destruction and misery are in their way,

3:17  and the way of peace they did not know."

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

3:19  But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

3:20  because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

3:21  But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;

3:22  even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,

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

3:24  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

3:25  whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;

3:26  for the display of His righteousness at this time, for Him to be just and, forgiving the one being of the faith of Jesus.

3:27  Then where is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

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

3:29  Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,

3:30  since it is one God who will justify circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

3:31  Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law.