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Chapter 3 

1 What, then, 

is the advantage of being a Jew? 

Or what is the value of circumcision?

2 Much in every way. 

First of all, 

they have been entrusted 

with the very words of God.

3 What if some did not have faith? 

Will their lack of faith 

nullify God’s faithfulness?

4 Certainly not! 

Let God be true 

and every man a liar. 

As it is written: 

“So that You may be proved right 

when You speak 

and victorious when You judge.”

5 But if our unrighteousness 

highlights the righteousness of God, 

what shall we say? 

That God is unjust 

to inflict His wrath on us? 

I am speaking in human terms.

6 Certainly not! 

In that case, how could God judge the world?

7 However, if my falsehood 

accentuates God’s truthfulness, 

to the increase of His glory, 

why am I still condemned 

as a sinner?

8 Why not say, 

as some slanderously claim that we say, 

“Let us do evil 

that good may result”? 

Their condemnation is deserved!

9 What then? 

Are we any better? 

Not at all. 

For we have already made the charge 

that Jews 

and Greeks alike 

are all under sin.

10 As it is written: 

“There is no one righteous, not even one.

11 There is no one who understands, 

no one who seeks God.

12 All have turned away, 

they have together become worthless; 

there is no one who does good, 

not even one.”

13 “Their throats are open graves;

their tongues practice deceit.” 

“The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

14 “Their mouths are full of cursing 

and bitterness.”

15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 ruin 

and misery lie in their wake,

17 and the way of peace 

they have not known.”

18 “There is no fear of God 

before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever 

the law says, 

it says to those 

who are under the law, 

so that every mouth may be silenced 

and the whole world 

held accountable to God.

20 Therefore 

no one will be justified in His sight 

by works of the law. 

For the law

 merely brings awareness of sin.

21 But now, 

apart from the law, 

the righteousness of God has been revealed, 

as attested by the Law

and the Prophets.

22 And this righteousness from God 

comes through faith in Jesus Christ 

to all who believe. 

There is no distinction,

23 for all have sinned 

and fall short of the glory of God,

24 and are justified freely by His grace 

through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

25 God presented Him 

as an atoning sacrifice 

in His blood through faith, 

 order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance 

He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

26 He did this 

to demonstrate His righteousness 

at the present time, 

so as to be just 

and to justify the one 

who has faith in Jesus.

27 Where, then, is boasting? 

It is excluded. 

On what principle? 

On that of works? 

No, 

but on that of faith.

28 For 

we maintain that a man 

is justified by faith 

apart from works of the law.

29 Is God the God of Jews only? 

Is He not the God of Gentiles too? 

Yes, 

of Gentiles too,

30 since there is only one God, 

who will justify the circumcised by faith 

and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

31 Do we, then, nullify the law 

by this faith? 

Certainly not! 

Instead, 

we uphold the law.