Murdock - Romans - 3

3:1  What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the advantage of circumcision?

3:2  Much, every way. And first, because to them were intrusted the oracles of God.

3:3  For if some of them have not believed, have they, by their not believing, made the faith of God inefficient?

3:4  Far be it: for God is veracious, and every man false: as it is written: That thou mightest be upright, in thy declarations; and be found pure, when they judge thee.

3:5  But if our iniquity establish the rectitude of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, when he inflicteth wrath? (I speak as a man.)

3:6  Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the world?

3:7  But if the truth of God hath been furthered by my falsehood, to his glory; why am I then condemned as a sinner?

3:8  Or shall we say as some have slanderously reported us to say: We will do evil things, that good results may come? The condemnation of such is reserved for justice.

3:9  What then, have WE the superiority, when we have before decided as to both Jews and Gentiles, that all of them are under sin?

3:10  As it is written: There is none righteous; no, no one:

3:11  and none that understandeth; nor that seeketh after God.

3:12  They have all turned aside, together; and become reprobates. There is none that doeth good; no, not one.

3:13  Their throats are open sepulchres, and their tongues treacherous; and the venom of the asp is under their lips.

3:14  Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

3:15  and their feet are swift to shed blood.

3:16  Destruction and anguish are in their paths:

3:17  and the path of peacefulness they have not known:

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

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

3:20  Wherefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is justified before him: for, by the law, sin is known.

3:21  But now, the righteousness of God without the law, is manifested; and the law and the prophets testify of it:

3:22  even the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Messiah, for every one, and on every one, that believeth in him: for there is no distinction;

3:23  for they have all sinned, and failed of the glory of God.

3:24  And they are justified gratuitously, by grace, and by the redemption which is in Jesus Messiah;

3:25  whom God hath preconstituted a propitiation, by faith in his blood, because of our sins, which we before committed,

3:26  in the space which God in his long suffering gave to us, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time; that he might be righteous, and might with righteousness justify him who is in the faith of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

3:27  Where then is glorying? It is annihilated. By what law? by that of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

3:28  We therefore conclude, that it is by faith a man is justified, and not by the works of the law.

3:29  For, is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? Nay: of the Gentiles also.

3:30  Because there is, one God, who justifieth the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision by the same faith.

3:31  Do, we then nullify the law by faith? Far be it. On the contrary, we establish the law.