Chapter 3

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

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  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  

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  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  

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  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.  

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  But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)  

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

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  For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  

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  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.  

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  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;  

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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 are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not 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 saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  

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  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.  

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  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;  

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  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:  

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  For all have sinned, and come 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 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;  

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  To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  

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  Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  

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  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  

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  [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  

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  Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  

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  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.  

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