Romans:3

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* What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit is there of circumcision ? * Much every way : chiefly , because that unto them were committed (5681 ) the oracles of God . * For what if some did not believe (5656 )? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect (5692 )? * God forbid (5636 ): yea , let God be (5737 ) true , but every man a liar ; as it is written (5769 ), That thou mightest be justified (5686 ) in thy sayings , and mightest overcome (5661 ) when thou art judged (5745 ). * But if our unrighteousness commend (5719 ) the righteousness of God , what shall we say (5692 )? Is God unrighteous who taketh (5723 ) vengeance ? (I speak (5719 ) as a man ) * God forbid (5636 ): for then how shall God judge (5692 ) (5719 ) the world ? * For if the truth of God hath more abounded (5656 ) through my lie unto his glory ; why yet am I also judged (5743 ) as a sinner ? * And not rather , (as we be slanderously reported (5743 ), and as some affirm (5748 ) that we say (5721 ),) Let us do (5661 ) evil , that good may come (5632 )? whose damnation is (5748 ) just . * What then ? are we better (5736 ) than they ? No , in no wise : for we have before proved (5662 ) both Jews and Gentiles , that they are (5750 ) all nder sin ; * As it is written (5769 ), There is (5748 ) none righteous , no , not one : * There is (5748 ) none that understandeth (5723 ), there is (5748 ) none that seeketh after (5723 ) God . * They are all gone out of the way (5656 ), they are together become unprofitable (5681 ); there is (5748 ) none that doeth (5723 ) good , no , not one (5748 ) . * Their throat is an open (5772 ) sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit (5707 ); the poison of asps is under their lips : * Whose mouth is full (5719 ) of cursing and bitterness : * Their feet are swift to shed (5658 ) blood : * Destruction and misery are in their ways : * And the way of peace have they not known (5627 ): * There is (5748 ) no fear of God before their eyes . * Now we know (5758 ) that what things soever the law saith (5719 ), it saith (5719 ) to them who are under the law : that every mouth may be stopped (5652 ), and all the world may become (5638 ) guilty before God . * Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified (5701 ) in his sight : for by the law is the knowledge of sin . * But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested (5769 ), being witnessed (5746 ) by the law and the prophets ; * Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe (5723 ): for there is (5748 ) no difference : * For all have sinned (5627 ), and come short (5743 ) of the glory of God ; * Being justified (5746 ) freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : * Whom God hath set forth (5639 ) to be a propitiation through faith in his blood , to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past (5761 ), through the forbearance of God ; * To declare , I say , at this time his righteousness : that he might be (5750 ) just , and the justifier (5723 ) of him which believeth in Jesus . * Where is boasting then ? It is excluded (5681 ). By what law ? of works ? Nay : but by the law of faith . * Therefore we conclude (5736 ) that a man is justified (5745 ) by faith without the deeds of the law . * Is he the God of the Jews only ? is he not also of the Gentiles ? Yes , of the Gentiles also : * Seeing it is one God , which shall justify (5692 ) the circumcision by faith , and uncircumcision through faith . * Do we then make void (5719 ) the law through faith ? God forbid (5636 ): yea , we establish (5719 ) the law .

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