Romans 3

What advantage, then, does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Much in every way. First of all, they were entrusted with the words of God. What then? If some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? By no means! Let God be true and every human being a liar, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness demonstrates God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unjust when he brings wrath? I am speaking in human terms. By no means! Otherwise, how will God judge the world? But if God’s truth has abounded through my lie to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner? And why not say, as we are slandered and as some claim we say, “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is just. What then? Are we better off? Not at all, for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, as it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God. All have turned aside;
together they have become worthless.
There is no one who does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery are in their paths, and they have not known the way of peace. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. For no human being will be justified before him by works of the law, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been revealed apart from the law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented him as a propitiation through faith in his blood, to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had passed over the sins previously committed in God’s forbearance. This was to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles too, since God is one, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then nullify the law through faith? By no means! Rather, we uphold the law.

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