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