| Chapter 3 |
| 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.
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| 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. |
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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? |
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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;
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| 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.
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| 12 | 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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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: |
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15 | Their feet are swift to shed blood: |
| 16 |
Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
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17 | And the way of peace have
they not known: |
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18 | There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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| 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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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31 | Do we then make void the
law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. |
