| 1 ¶ What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
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| 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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| 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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| 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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| 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)
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| 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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| 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?
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| 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.
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| 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved1 both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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| 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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| 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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| 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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| 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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| 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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| 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
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| 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
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| 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
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| 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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| 19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty2 before God.
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| 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.
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| 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
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| 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:
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| 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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| 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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| 25 Whom God hath set forth3 to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission4 of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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| 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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| 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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| 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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| 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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| 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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| 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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