Thematic Bible

Romans 3:1

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?

Romans 3:2

much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

Romans 3:3

for what if some betrayed their trust? shall their unfaithfulness render

Romans 3:4

the faithfulness of God of no effect? by no means; yea, let God be acknowledged to be true, tho' men should be all deceivers; as it is written, " that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."

Romans 3:5

but say you, "if our unfaithfulness displays the veracity of God, what shall we say? is it not injustice in God to inflict punishment?"

Romans 3:6

not at all: for then how could God judge the world?

Romans 3:7

"but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?

Romans 3:8

and why may we not do evil, that good may come?" which is slanderously reported to be our maxim, by some, whose condemnation is just.

Romans 3:9

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

Romans 3:10

as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one:

Romans 3:11

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Romans 3:12

they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one.

Romans 3:13

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Romans 3:14

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Romans 3:15

their feet are swift to shed blood.

Romans 3:16

destruction and misery are in their ways:

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace have they not known.

Romans 3:18

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.

Romans 3:20

for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

Romans 3:21

but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law:

Romans 3:22

that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction:

Romans 3:23

for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory:

Romans 3:24

being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:

Romans 3:25

whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest,

Romans 3:26

I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

Romans 3:27

what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith.

Romans 3:28

for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

Romans 3:29

is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;

Romans 3:30

since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.

Romans 3:31

do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.