1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
3Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
4Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
5For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
6For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
7God 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.
8God 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.
9But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
10But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
11God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
12God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
13For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
14For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
15And 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.
16And 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.
17What 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;
18What 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;
19As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
20As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
21There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
22There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
23They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
24They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
25Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
26Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
27Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
28Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
29Their feet are swift to shed blood:
30Their feet are swift to shed blood:
31Destruction and misery are in their ways:
32Destruction and misery are in their ways:
33And the way of peace have they not known:
34And the way of peace have they not known:
35There is no fear of God before their eyes.
36There is no fear of God before their eyes.
37Now 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 guilty before God.
38Now 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 guilty before God.
39Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
40Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
41But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
42But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
43Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
44Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
45For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
46For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
47Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
48Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
49Whom 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;
50Whom 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;
51To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
52To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
53Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
54Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
55Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
56Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
57Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
58Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
59Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
60Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
61Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
62Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.