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title: Romans 3
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createdAt: 2024-09-08T03:29:40.002Z
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**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.