Romans 3 — ASV
3Verse 1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?Verse 2Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.Verse 3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?Verse 4God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written,That thou mightest be justified in thy words,
And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.Verse 5But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)Verse 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?Verse 7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?Verse 8and 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.Verse 9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;Verse 10as it is written,There is none righteous, no, not one;
Verse 11There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God;
Verse 12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:
Verse 13Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit:
The poison of asps is under their lips:
Verse 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Verse 15Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Verse 16Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Verse 17And the way of peace have they not known:
Verse 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.Verse 19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:Verse 20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.Verse 21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;Verse 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;Verse 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;Verse 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:Verse 25whom 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 aforetime, in the forbearance of God;Verse 26for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.Verse 27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.Verse 28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.Verse 29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:Verse 30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.Verse 31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.Verse 5But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)Verse 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?Verse 7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?Verse 8and 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.Verse 9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;Verse 10as it is written,There is none righteous, no, not one;
Verse 11There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God;
Verse 12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:
Verse 13Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit:
The poison of asps is under their lips:
Verse 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Verse 15Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Verse 16Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Verse 17And the way of peace have they not known:
Verse 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.Verse 19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:Verse 20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.Verse 21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;Verse 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;Verse 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;Verse 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:Verse 25whom 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 aforetime, in the forbearance of God;Verse 26for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.Verse 27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.Verse 28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.Verse 29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:Verse 30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.Verse 31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.