Romans 3

¹What preeminence then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Much by all means. First surely because the words of God were committed to them.

³For what if certain of them have not believed? Hath their incredulity made the faith of God frustrate?

⁴God forbid. But God is true, & every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged.

⁵But if our iniquity commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust that executeth wrath? (I speak according to man)

⁶God forbid; otherwise how shall God judge this world?

⁷For if the verity of God hath abounded in my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner,

⁸and not (as we are blasphemed, and as some report us to say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? do we excel them? No, not so. For we have argued the Jews and the Greeks, all to be under sin;

¹⁰as it is written: That there is not any man just,

¹¹there is not that understandeth, there is not that seeketh after God.

¹²All have declined, they are become unprofitable together: there is not that doeth good, there is not so much as one.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps under their lips.

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of malediction and bitterness:

¹⁵Their feet swift to shed blood.

¹⁶Destruction & infelicity in their ways:

¹⁷and the way of peace they have not known.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹And we know that whatsoever the Law speaketh, to them it speaketh that are in the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, & all the world may be made subject to God:

²⁰because by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the Law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now without the Law the justice of God is manifested; testified by the Law and the Prophets.

²²And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe in him. For there is no distinction.

²³For all have sinned; and do need the glory of God.

²⁴Justified gratis by his grace, by the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁵whom God hath proposed a propitiation, by faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

²⁶in the toleration of God, to the shewing of his justice in this time: that he may be just, and justifying him that is of the faith of Jesus Christ.

²⁷Where is then thy boasting? it is excluded. By what law? of deeds? No, but by the law of faith.

²⁸For we account a man to be justified by faith without the works of the Law.

²⁹Is he God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes of the Gentiles also.

³⁰For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and prepuce by faith.

³¹Do we then destroy the Law by faith? God forbid, but we do establish the Law.