What advantage is there, then, in being a Jew? Or what benefit is there in circumcision?

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

Much in every way! First of all, they were entrusted with the very words of God.

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God?

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

Absolutely not! 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."

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.

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.)

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Why not say—as some slanderously claim we say—"Let us do evil so that good may result"? Their condemnation is just.

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.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

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;

As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one."

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

"There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

Ruin and misery mark their paths.

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

And the way of peace they have not known.

And the way of peace have they not known:

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

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.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, testified to by the Law and the Prophets.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

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:

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed.

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;

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles too.

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the same faith.

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.