NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Justified by Faith, Not by Works — October 28
Romans 3-4
Romans 3
1 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 365N 301.1
2 Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the [a] oracles of God. 365N 301.2
3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 365N 301.3
4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be [b] 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.” 365N 301.4
5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 365N 301.5
6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 365N 301.6
7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 365N 301.7
8 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 [c] condemnation is just. 365N 301.8
9 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. 365N 301.9
10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 365N 301.10
11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 365N 301.11
12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” 365N 301.12
13 “Their throat is an open [d] tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit” ; “The poison of asps is under their lips” ; 365N 301.13
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 365N 301.14
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 365N 301.15
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 365N 301.16
17 And the way of peace they have not known.” 365N 301.17
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 365N 301.18
19 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 [e] guilty before God. 365N 301.19
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 365N 301.20
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 365N 301.21
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all [f] and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 365N 301.22
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 365N 301.23
24 being justified [g] freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 365N 301.24
25 whom God set forth as a [h] propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 365N 301.25
26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 365N 301.26
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 365N 301.27
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is [i] justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 365N 301.28
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 365N 301.29
30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 365N 301.30
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. 365N 301.31
Romans 4
1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father [a] has found according to the flesh? 365N 301.32
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 365N 301.33
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was [b] accounted to him for righteousness.” 365N 301.34
4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted [c] as grace but as debt. 365N 301.35
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 365N 301.36
6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 365N 301.37
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; 365N 301.38
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.” 365N 301.39
9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 365N 301.40
10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 365N 301.41
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 365N 301.42
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 365N 301.43
13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 365N 301.44
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 365N 301.45
15 because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. 365N 301.46
16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be [d] sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 365N 301.47
17 (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” ) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 365N 301.48
18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 365N 301.49
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 365N 301.50
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 365N 301.51
21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 365N 301.52
22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 365N 301.53
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, 365N 301.54
24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 365N 301.55
25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification. 365N 301.56