1What advantage then hath the
Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
2Much every way: chiefly,
because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God.
3For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect?
4God 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.
5But if our unrighteousness
commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God
unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I
speak as a man)
6God forbid: for then how
shall God judge the world?
7For if the truth of God hath
more abounded through my lie unto
his glory; why yet am I also judged
as a sinner?
8And 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.
9What 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;
10As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one:
11There is none that
understandeth, there is none that
seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of
the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one.
13Their throat is an
open sepulchre; with their tongues
they have used deceit; the poison of
asps is under
their lips:
14Whose mouth is full
of cursing and bitterness:
15Their feet are swift
to shed blood:
16Destruction and misery are in
their ways:
17And the way of peace have
they not known:
18There is no fear of God
before their eyes.
19Now 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.
20Therefore by the deeds of
the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the
law is the
knowledge of sin.
21But now the righteousness
of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the
law and the prophets;
22Even the righteousness of
God which
is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference:
23For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God;
24Being justified freely by
his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus:
25Whom 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;
26To declare, I
say, at this time his
righteousness: that he might be
just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus.
27Where is boasting
then? It is excluded. By what law?
of works? Nay: but by the law of
faith.
28Therefore we conclude that
a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
29Is
he the God of the Jews only? is
he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30Seeing it
is one God, which shall justify
the circumcision by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we then make void the
law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law.