Thematic Bible
Romans 3:1 (show verse)
What advantage then has the Jew, or what profit has circumcision?
Romans 3:2 (show verse)
Much in every respect; but chiefly that the oracles of God were intrusted to them.
Romans 3:3 (show verse)
What, indeed, if some have been unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness overthrow the faithfulness of God?
Romans 3:4 (show verse)
It can not be. But let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written: That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans 3:5 (show verse)
But if our unrighteousness causes God's plan of justifying men to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.
Romans 3:6 (show verse)
It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?
Romans 3:7 (show verse)
Yet, if the truth of God has, through my lie, been greatly advanced to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
Romans 3:8 (show verse)
Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.
Romans 3:9 (show verse)
What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,
Romans 3:10 (show verse)
as it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;
Romans 3:11 (show verse)
there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;
Romans 3:12 (show verse)
they have all turned out of the way; they have alike become unprofitable; there is none that does good, not even one;
Romans 3:13 (show verse)
their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;
Romans 3:14 (show verse)
their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Romans 3:15 (show verse)
their feet. are swift to shed blood;
Romans 3:16 (show verse)
destruction and misery are in their ways;
Romans 3:17 (show verse)
and the way of peace they have not known;
Romans 3:18 (show verse)
there is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans 3:19 (show verse)
Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.
Romans 3:20 (show verse)
Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21 (show verse)
But now, God's plan of justifying men without law is revealed, being attested by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22 (show verse)
I repeat it, God's plan of justifying men through faith in Jesus Christ, which is for all, and on all that believe; for there is no difference;
Romans 3:23 (show verse)
for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:24 (show verse)
yet may be justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
Romans 3:25 (show verse)
whom God has set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith in his blood, in order to manifest his righteousness, in passing by the sins that were formerly committed through the forbearance of God;
Romans 3:26 (show verse)
in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just, while he justifies him who believes in Jesus.
Romans 3:27 (show verse)
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Romans 3:28 (show verse)
For we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without deeds of law.
Romans 3:29 (show verse)
Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gen tiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Romans 3:30 (show verse)
since there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.
Romans 3:31 (show verse)
Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.