Romans 3

Paul shows that Jews and Gentiles alike are under sin: there is none righteous, no, not one. All have sinned and fall short of God's glory. But God's righteousness has been shown apart from the law, given freely by his grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Key verses

  • Verse 10No one is righteous on their own.
  • Verse 23Everyone has sinned and fallen short.
  • Verse 24Made right with God freely, by his grace in Christ.

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?SelectedRomans 3:1Ask

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.SelectedRomans 3:2Ask

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?SelectedRomans 3:3Ask

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.SelectedRomans 3:4Ask

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)SelectedRomans 3:5Ask

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?SelectedRomans 3:6Ask

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?SelectedRomans 3:7Ask

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.SelectedRomans 3:8Ask

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;SelectedRomans 3:9Ask

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:SelectedRomans 3:10Ask

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.SelectedRomans 3:11Ask

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.SelectedRomans 3:12Ask

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:SelectedRomans 3:13Ask

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:SelectedRomans 3:14Ask

Their feet are swift to shed blood:SelectedRomans 3:15Ask

Destruction and misery are in their ways:SelectedRomans 3:16Ask

And the way of peace have they not known:SelectedRomans 3:17Ask

There is no fear of God before their eyes.SelectedRomans 3:18Ask

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.SelectedRomans 3:19Ask

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.SelectedRomans 3:20Ask

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;SelectedRomans 3:21Ask

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:SelectedRomans 3:22Ask

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;SelectedRomans 3:23Ask

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:SelectedRomans 3:24Ask

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;SelectedRomans 3:25Ask

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.SelectedRomans 3:26Ask

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.SelectedRomans 3:27Ask

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.SelectedRomans 3:28Ask

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:SelectedRomans 3:29Ask

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.SelectedRomans 3:30Ask

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.SelectedRomans 3:31Ask

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