1 T hen what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

2 M uch in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

3 F or what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

4 M ay it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

5 B ut if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

6 M ay it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

7 F or if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 W hy not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

9 W hat then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

10 A s it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

11 T here is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

12 T hey have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

13 “ Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

14 “ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 “ Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16 D estruction and misery are in their ways.

17 T he way of peace, they haven’t known.”

18 “ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 N ow we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

20 B ecause by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

21 B ut now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

22 e ven the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

23 f or all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

24 b eing justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

25 w hom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

26 t o demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

27 W here then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

28 W e maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

29 O r is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

30 s ince indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

31 D o we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.