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3:1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2 Much in every way: first of all, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3:3 What then? If some were without faith, will their want of faith make of no effect the faithfulness of God? 3:4 God forbid: yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar; according to as it is written, That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment. 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) 3:6 God forbid: for then how will God judge the world? 3:7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 3:8 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. 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; 3:10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; 3:11 There is none who understands, There is none who seeks after God; 3:12 They have all turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not so much as one: 3:13 Their throat is an open tomb; 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: 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 3:20 because by the works of the law will no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [comes] the knowledge of sin. 3:21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 3:25 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 previously, in the forbearance of God; 3:26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. 3:27 Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No: but by a law of faith. 3:28 For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 3:29 Or is God [the God] of Jews only? Is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also: 3:30 since there is [only] one God, he will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. 3:31 Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? God forbid: no, we establish the law. |
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