Chapter 3

  What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?  

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  Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.  

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  For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?  

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  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.  

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  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.)  

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  God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?  

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  But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?  

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  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.  

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  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;  

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  as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;  

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  There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;  

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  They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:  

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  Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:  

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  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:  

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  Their feet are swift to shed blood;  

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  Destruction and misery are in their ways;  

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  And the way of peace have they not known:  

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  There is no fear of God before their eyes.  

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  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:  

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  because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.  

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  But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;  

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  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;  

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  for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;  

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  being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  

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  whom God set forth [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;  

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  for the showing, [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.  

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  Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.  

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  We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.  

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  Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:  

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  if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.  

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  Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.  

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