Romans:3

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* What advantage then has the Jew , or what is the profit of circumcision ? * Much in every way ! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God . * For what if some did not believe ? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect ? * Certainly not ! Indeed , let God be true but every man a liar . As it is written : "That You may be justified in Your words , And may overcome when You are judged ." * But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God , what shall we say ? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath ? (I speak as a man .) * Certainly not ! For then how will God judge the world ? * For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory , why am I also still judged as a sinner ? * And why not say , "Let us do evil that good may come "?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say . Their condemnation is just . * What then ? Are we better than they ? Not at all . For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin . * As it is written : "There is none righteous , no , not one ; * There is none who understands ; There is none who seeks after God . * They have all turned aside ; They have together become unprofitable ; There is none who does good , no , not one ." * "Their throat is an open tomb ; With their tongues they have practiced deceit "; "The poison of asps is under their lips "; * "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness ." * "Their feet are swift to shed blood ; * Destruction and misery are in their ways ; * And the way of peace they have not known ." * "There is no fear of God before their eyes ." * Now we know that whatever the law says , it says to those who are under the law , that every mouth may be stopped , and all the world may become guilty before God . * Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight , for by the law is the knowledge of sin . * But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed , being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets , * even the righteousness of God , through faith in Jesus Christ , to all and on all who believe . For there is no difference ; * for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God , * being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus , * whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood , through faith , to demonstrate His righteousness , because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed , * to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness , that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus . * Where is boasting then ? It is excluded . By what law ? Of works ? No , but by the law of faith . * Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law . * Or is He the God of the Jews only ? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles ? Yes , of the Gentiles also , * since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith . * Do we then make void the law through faith ? Certainly not ! On the contrary , we establish the law .

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