Romans 3 (NET)

Romans 3:1¹Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:2²Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:3³What then? If some were unfaithful, their unfaithfulness will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:4⁴Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:5⁵But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:6⁶Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:7⁷For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:8⁸And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?—as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:9⁹What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:10¹⁰just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:11¹¹there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:12¹²All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one. ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:13¹³“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:14¹⁴“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:15¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:16¹⁶ruin and misery are in their paths,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:17¹⁷and the way of peace they have not known.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:18¹⁸“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:19¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:20²⁰For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:21²¹But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:22²²namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:23²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:24²⁴But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:25²⁵God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:26²⁶This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:27²⁷Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:28²⁸For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:29²⁹Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:30³⁰Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 3:31³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions