Worsley - Romans - 3

3:1  What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

3:2  Much, every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

3:3  For what if some did not believe? shall their incredulity make the faithfulness of God of no effect?

3:4  God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

3:5  "But if our unrighteousness confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:

3:6  for then how shall God judge the world?

3:7  "But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

3:8  and why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation is just.

3:9  "What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

3:10  "There is none righteous, no not one;

3:11  there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

3:12  They are all gone out of the way, they are become unprofitable, there is none that practiseth goodness, no 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  their feet are swift to shed blood:

3:16  destruction and misery are in their ways:

3:17  and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

3:18  Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,

3:19  it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

3:20  Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

3:21  But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

3:22  and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; 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, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

3:25  whom God hath appointed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, in the remission of past sins, according to the forbearance of God;

3:26  for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

3:27  Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by 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 Gentiles?

3:30  surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

3:31  Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.