Thematic Bible
Romans 3:1 (show verse)
What preferment, then, hath the Jew? Other, what advantageth circumcision?
Romans 3:2 (show verse)
Surely, very much. First: unto them was committed the word of God.
Romans 3:3 (show verse)
What, then, though some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the promise of God without effect?
Romans 3:4 (show verse)
God forbid. Let God be true, and all men liars, as it is written, "That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and shouldest overcome when thou art judged."
Romans 3:5 (show verse)
If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which taketh vengeance? I speak after the manner of men.
Romans 3:6 (show verse)
God forbid. For how then shall God judge the world?
Romans 3:7 (show verse)
If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?
Romans 3:8 (show verse)
And say not rather - as men evil-speak of us, and as some affirm that we say - "Let us do evil, that good may come thereof." Whose damnation is just.
Romans 3:9 (show verse)
What say we then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have already proved how that both Jews and gentiles are all 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 understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God,
Romans 3:12 (show verse)
they are all gone out of the way, they are all made unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one."
Romans 3:13 (show verse)
"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."
Romans 3:14 (show verse)
"Whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
Romans 3:15 (show verse)
"Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Romans 3:16 (show verse)
Destruction and wretchedness 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)
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,
Romans 3:20 (show verse)
because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21 (show verse)
Now, verily, is the righteousness that cometh of God declared without the fulfilling of the law: having witness yet of the law, and of the prophets.
Romans 3:22 (show verse)
The righteousness, no doubt, which is good before God cometh by the faith of Jesus Christ: unto all, and upon all them that believe.
Romans 3:23 (show verse)
There is no difference: For all have sinned, and lack the praise that is of valour before God:
Romans 3:24 (show verse)
but are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
Romans 3:25 (show verse)
- whom God hath set forth for a mercy seat through faith in his blood, to show the righteousness which before him is of valour, in that he forgiveth the sins that are passed,
Romans 3:26 (show verse)
which God did suffer to show at this time: the righteousness that is allowed of him, that he might be counted just, and a justifier of him which believeth on Jesus.
Romans 3:27 (show verse)
Where is then thy rejoicing? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Romans 3:28 (show verse)
We suppose, therefore we hold, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 3:29 (show verse)
Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the gentiles? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.
Romans 3:30 (show verse)
For it is God only which justifieth circumcision, which is of faith: and uncircumcision through faith.
Romans 3:31 (show verse)
Do we then destroy the law through faith? God forbid. But we, rather, maintain the law.