Sha'ul�s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 3
{3:1} Then what advantage does the Yehudi have? Or what is the
profit of circumcision? {3:2} Much in every way! Because first of all,
that they were entrusted with the oracles of God. {3:3} For what if
some were without faith? Will their lack of faith make of no effect
the faithfulness of God? {3:4} Certainly not! Yes, let God be found
true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
"That you might be justified in your words,
And might prevail when you come into judgment."
{3:5} But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God,
what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like
men do. {3:6} Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
{3:7} For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
why am I also still judged as a sinner? {3:8} Why not (as we are
slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do
evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
{3:9} What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we
previously charged both Yehudim and Yevanim, that they are all under
sin. {3:10} As it is written,
"There is no one righteous. No, not one.
{3:11} There is no one who understands.
There is no one who seeks after God.
{3:12} They have all turned aside.
They have together become unprofitable.
There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
{3:13} "Their throat is an open tomb.
With their tongues they have used deceit."
"The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
{3:14} "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
{3:15} "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
{3:16} Destruction and misery are in their ways.
{3:17} The way of shalom, they haven't known."
{3:18} "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
{3:19} Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to
those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all
the world may be brought under the judgment of God. {3:20} Because by
the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For
through the law comes the knowledge of sin. {3:21} But now apart from
the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by
the law and the prophets; {3:22} even the righteousness of God through
faith in Yeshua the Messiah to all and on all those who believe. For
there is no distinction, {3:23} for all have sinned, and fall short of
the glory of God; {3:24} being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Messiah Yeshua; {3:25} whom God set forth to
be an atoning sacrifice, through faith, in his blood, to show his
righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done before, in
the forbearance of God; {3:26} for the showing of his righteousness at
this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of
him who has faith in Yeshua. {3:27} Where then is the boasting? It is
excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
{3:28} We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart
from the works of the law. {3:29} Or is God the God of Yehudim only?
Isn't he the God of Goyim also? Yes, of Goyim also, {3:30} if it is so
that God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith, and the
uncircumcised through faith. {3:31} Do we then make the law of no
effect through faith? Certainly not! No, we establish the law.
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