Romans:3

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* Then what advantage does the Jew have ? Or what is the profit of circumcision ? * Much in every way ! Because first of all , they were entrusted with the oracles of God . * For what if some were without faith ? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God ? * May it never be ! Yes , let God be found true , but every man a liar . As it is written , "That you might be justified in your words , and might prevail when you come into judgment ." {Psalm strkjv @51:4 } * But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God , what will we say ? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath ? I speak like men do . * May it never be ! For then how will God judge the world ? * For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory , why am I also still judged as a sinner ? * Why not (as we are slanderously reported , and as some affirm that we say ), "Let us do evil , that good may come ?" Those who say so are justly condemned . * What then ? Are we better than they ? No , in no way . For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks , that they are all under sin . * As it is written , "There is no one righteous ; no , not one . * There is no one who understands . There is no one who seeks after God . * They have all turned aside . They have together become unprofitable . There is no one who does good , no , not , so much as one ." {Psalms strkjv @14:1-3 ; strkjv @53:1-3 ; Ecclesiastes strkjv @7:20 } * "Their throat is an open tomb . With their tongues they have used deceit ." {Psalm strkjv @5:9 } "The poison of vipers is under their lips "; {Psalm strkjv @140:3 } * "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness ." {Psalm strkjv @10:7 } * "Their feet are swift to shed blood . * Destruction and misery are in their ways . * The way of peace , they haven 't known ." {Isaiah strkjv @59:7-8 } * "There is no fear of God before their eyes ." {Psalm strkjv @36:1 } * Now we know that whatever things the law says , it speaks to those who are under the law , that every mouth may be closed , and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God . * Because by the works of the law , no flesh will be justified in his sight . For through the law comes the knowledge of sin . * But now apart from the law , a righteousness of God has been revealed , being testified by the law and the prophets ; * even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe . For there is no distinction , * 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 to be an atoning sacrifice {or , a propitiation }, through faith in his blood , for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins , in God 's forbearance ; * to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time ; that he might himself be just , and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus . * Where then is the boasting ? It is excluded . By what kind of law ? Of works ? No , but by a law of faith . * We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law . * Or is God the God of Jews only ? Isn 't he the God of Gentiles also ? Yes , of Gentiles also , * since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith , and the uncircumcised through faith . * Do we then nullify the law through faith ? May it never be ! No , we establish the law .

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