Romans 3:5-26
American Standard Version
5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) 6 [a]God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 [b]But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 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.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; 10 as it is written,
[c]There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God;
12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:
13 [d]Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit:
[e]The poison of asps is under their lips:
14 [f]Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 [g]Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 [h]There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 20 because [i]by [j]the works of the law shall no flesh be [k]justified in his sight; for [l]through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God through faith [m]in Jesus Christ unto all [n]them that believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all [o]have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 whom God set forth [p]to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be [q]just, and the [r]justifier of him that [s]hath faith [t]in Jesus.
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- Romans 3:6 Greek Be it not so: and so elsewhere.
- Romans 3:7 Many ancient authorities read For.
- Romans 3:10 Ps. 14:1ff; 53:1ff.
- Romans 3:13 Ps. 5:9.
- Romans 3:13 Ps. 140:3.
- Romans 3:14 Ps. 10:7.
- Romans 3:15 Isa. 59:7f.
- Romans 3:18 Ps. 36:1.
- Romans 3:20 Greek out of.
- Romans 3:20 Or, works of law
- Romans 3:20 Or, accounted righteous
- Romans 3:20 Or, through law
- Romans 3:22 Or, of
- Romans 3:22 Some ancient authorities add and upon all.
- Romans 3:23 Greek sinned.
- Romans 3:25 Or, to be propitiatory
- Romans 3:26 See 2:13 margin.
- Romans 3:26 See 2:13 margin.
- Romans 3:26 Greek is of faith.
- Romans 3:26 Or, of
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