King James Reference Version

Romans 3

1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit (Romans 2:25) is there of circumcision?

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles (Deuteronomy 4:8; Psalms 147:19; Romans 2:18; Romans 9:4) of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief (Job 40:8; 2 Timothy 2:13) make the faith of God without effect?

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, (John 3:33) but every man (Psalms 62:9) a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.Psalms 51:4 Psa 51:4Psalms 51:4

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) (Romans 6:19; Galatians 3:15)

6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge (Genesis 18:25; Job 8:3; Job 8:20; Psalms 58:11; Psalms 94:2) the world?

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

8 And 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.

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; (Romans 3:23; Galatians 3:22)

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:Psalms 14:1 Psa 14:1Psalms 14:1 , Psa 53:1Psalms 53:1, Ecc 7:20Ecclesiastes 7:20

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.Psalms 14:2 Psa 14:2Psalms 14:2, Psa 53:2Psalms 53:2

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.Psalms 14:3 Psa 14:3Psalms 14:3, Psa 53:3Psalms 53:3

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit;Psalms 5:9 the poison of asps is under their lips:Psalms 140:3 Psa 5:9Psalms 5:9, Psa 140:3Psalms 140:3

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:Psalms 10:7 Psa 10:7Psalms 10:7

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:Isaiah 59:7 Isa 59:7Isaiah 59:7, Prov 1:16Proverbs 1:16

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:Isaiah 59:7 Isa 59:7Isaiah 59:7

17 And the way of peace have they not known:Isaiah 59:8 Isa 59:8Isaiah 59:8

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.Isaiah 59:8 Isa 59:8Isaiah 59:8

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth (Ezekiel 16:63) may be stopped, (Matthew 22:12) and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified (Psalms 143:2; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:11; Ephesians 2:9; Titus 3:5) in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge (Romans 7:7) of sin.

21 But now the righteousness (Romans 1:17) of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (1 Peter 1:10)

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, (Romans 3:9; Galatians 3:22) and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace (Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:8; Colossians 1:14) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (1 John 4:10) 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 might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting (1 Corinthians 1:29; Ephesians 2:9) then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: 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, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 42:21; Micah 4:2; Matthew 5:18; Hebrews 8:10)