Thematic Bible
Romans 3:1 (show verse)
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?
Romans 3:2 (show verse)
much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
Romans 3:3 (show verse)
for what if some betrayed their trust? shall their unfaithfulness render
Romans 3:4 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
not at all: for then how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:7 (show verse)
"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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
"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 (show verse)
as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one:
Romans 3:11 (show verse)
there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans 3:12 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans 3:14 (show verse)
whose 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 have they 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 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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law:
Romans 3:22 (show verse)
that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction:
Romans 3:23 (show verse)
for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory:
Romans 3:24 (show verse)
being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:
Romans 3:25 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.
Romans 3:29 (show verse)
is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;
Romans 3:30 (show verse)
since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.
Romans 3:31 (show verse)
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.