Bible, King James Version
Romans
Rom.3
[1] What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
[2] Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God.
[3] For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief
make the faith of God without effect?
[4] God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy
sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
[5] But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? (I speak as a man)
[6] God forbid: for then how shall God judge the
world?
[7] For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my
lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
[8] And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and
as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?
whose damnation is just.
[9] What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise:
for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, 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 are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not
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
saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
[20] Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge
of sin.
[21] But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
[22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of
Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there
is no difference:
[23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God;
[24] Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
[25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of
God;
[26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus.
[27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law?
of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
[28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law.
[29] Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
[30] Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
[31] Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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