3:1 What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
3:2 Much, in every respect. [For] in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.
3:3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity of God?
3:4 Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged.”
3:5 But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?
3:6 Of course not! For how else is God to judge the world?
3:7 But if God’s truth redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
3:8 And why not say—as we are accused and as some claim we say—that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve.
3:9 Well, then, are we better off? Not entirely, for we have already brought the charge against Jews and Greeks alike that they are all under the domination of sin,
3:10 as it is written: “There is no one just, not one,
3:11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
3:12 All have gone astray; all alike are worthless; there is not one who does good, [there is not] even one.
3:13 Their throats are open graves; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is on their lips;
3:19 Now we know that what the law says is addressed to those under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world stand accountable to God,
3:20 since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets,
3:22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction;
3:23 all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.
3:24 They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
3:25 whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed,
3:26 through the forbearance of God—to prove his righteousness in the present time, that he might be righteous and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
3:27 What occasion is there then for boasting? It is ruled out. On what principle, that of works? No, rather on the principle of faith.
3:28 For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
3:29 Does God belong to Jews alone? Does he not belong to Gentiles, too? Yes, also to Gentiles,
3:30 for God is one and will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
3:31 Are we then annulling the law by this faith? Of course not! On the contrary, we are supporting the law.
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