Verse 1
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what pfit is there of circumcision?
Verse 2
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Verse 3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Verse 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.
Verse 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)
Verse 6
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Verse 7
For if the truth of God hath more abounded thugh my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Verse 8
And not rather, (as we be slandeusly reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Verse 9
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before pved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Verse 10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Verse 11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Verse 12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unpfitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Verse 13
Their that is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Verse 14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Verse 15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Verse 16
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Verse 17
And the way of peace have they not known:
Verse 18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the pphets;
Verse 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:
Verse 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Verse 24
Being justified freely by his grace thugh the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Verse 25
Whom God hath set forth to be a ppitiation thugh faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, thugh the forbearance of God;
Verse 26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Verse 27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Verse 28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Verse 29
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Verse 30
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision thugh faith.
Verse 31
Do we then make void the law thugh faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.