Romans - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
  • 2. Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
  • 3. For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
  • 4. God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
  • 5. But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
  • 6. God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
  • 7. But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
  • 8. and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
  • 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
  • 10. as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
  • 11. There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
  • 12. They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
  • 13. Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
  • 14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
  • 15. Their feet are swift to shed blood;
  • 16. Destruction and misery are in their ways;
  • 17. And the way of peace have they not known:
  • 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
  • 19. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
  • 20. because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law {cf15i cometh} the knowledge of sin.
  • 21. But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
  • 22. even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
  • 23. for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
  • 24. being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
  • 25. whom God set forth {cf15i to be} a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
  • 26. for the showing, {cf15i I say}, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
  • 27. Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
  • 28. We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
  • 29. Or is God {cf15i the God} of Jews only? is he not {cf15i the God} of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:
  • 30. if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
  • 31. Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
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