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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. |
| 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.
Psa 51:4 |
| 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:
Psa 14:1, 53:1 Ecc 7:20 |
| 11 |
There is none
that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Psa 14:2, 53:2 |
| 12 |
They are all gone out of the way, they
are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Psa 14:3, 53:3 |
| 13 |
Their throat is
an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the
poison of asps
is under their lips:
Psa 5:9, 140:3 |
| 14 |
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Psa 10:7 |
| 15 | Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Isa 59:7 Prov 1:16 |
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Destruction and misery are in their
ways:
Isa 59:7 |
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And the way of
peace have they not known:
Isa 59:8 |
| 18 | There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Isa 59:8 |
| 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. |