Thematic Bible
Romans 3:1 (show verse)
What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
Romans 3:2 (show verse)
Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Romans 3:3 (show verse)
For what, if some did disbelieve? Shall their disbelief make void the faithfulness of God?
Romans 3:4 (show verse)
May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."
Romans 3:5 (show verse)
But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man).
Romans 3:6 (show verse)
It could not be! for, then, how shall God judge the world?
Romans 3:7 (show verse)
But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Romans 3:8 (show verse)
And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come?" whose condemnation is just.
Romans 3:9 (show verse)
What, then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we before charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
Romans 3:10 (show verse)
as it has been 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 aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;
Romans 3:13 (show verse)
their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they 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 ways 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 whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;
Romans 3:20 (show verse)
because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21 (show verse)
But now, apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22 (show verse)
even a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe; for there is no distinction;
Romans 3:23 (show verse)
for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:24 (show verse)
being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
Romans 3:25 (show verse)
Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:
Romans 3:26 (show verse)
for the manifestation of His righteousness in the present time, to the end that He may be righteous, even when declaring righteous him who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:27 (show verse)
Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.
Romans 3:28 (show verse)
For we reckon that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of law.
Romans 3:29 (show verse)
Or is He the God of Jews only? Is He not of gentiles also! Yes, of gentiles also;
Romans 3:30 (show verse)
if, indeed, God is One Who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
Romans 3:31 (show verse)
Do we, then, make void the law through faith? It could not be! Yea, we establish the law.