Romans 3
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Romans 3
1¶ What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them.
3For what if some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief have made the truth of God without effect?
4No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.
5And if our iniquity commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Shall for this reason God be unjust who sends punishment? (I speak as a man.)
6No, in no wise: for then how shall God judge the world?
7For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why even so am I also judged as a sinner?
8And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom is just.
9What 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;
10as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;
11there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.
12They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15their feet are swift to shed blood;
16destruction and misery are in their ways,
17and the way of peace they have not known;
18there is no fear of God before their eyes.
19¶ Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.
20For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21But now, without the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets:
22the righteousness, that is, of God by the faith of Jesus, the Christ, for all and upon all those that believe in him, for there is no difference;
23for all have sinned and are made destitute of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus, the Christ,
25whom God purposed for reconciliation through faith in his blood for the manifestation of his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, by the patience of God,
26manifesting in this time his righteousness that he only be the just one and the justifier of him that is of the faith of Jesus.
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
30seeing it is one God who shall justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision by faith.
31Do we then make void the law through faith? No, in no wise; to the contrary, we establish the law.
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The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International
Romans 3
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1So, do Jews have anything that others don’t have? Do they get any benefit from being circumcised? 2Yes, the Jews have many benefits. The most important one is this: God trusted the Jews with his teachings. 3It is true that some Jews were not faithful to God. But will that stop God from doing what he promised? 4No, even if everyone else is a liar, God will always do what he says. As the Scriptures say about him,
“You will be proved right in what you say,
and you will win when people accuse you.” Psalm 51:4
5When we do wrong, that shows more clearly that God is right. So can we say that God does wrong when he punishes us? (That’s the way some people think.) 6Of course not. If God could not punish us, how could he judge the world?
7Someone might say, “When I lie, it really gives God glory, because my lie makes his truth easier to see. So why am I judged a sinner?” 8It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Many people criticize us, saying that’s what we teach. They are wrong, and they should be condemned for saying that.
All People Are Guilty
9So are we Jews better than other people? No, we have already said that those who are Jews, as well as those who are not Jews, are the same. They are all guilty of sin. 10As the Scriptures say,
“There is no one doing what is right,
not even one.
11There is no one who understands.
There is no one who is trying to be with God.
12They have all turned away from him,
and now they are of no use to anyone.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.” Psalm 14:1-3
13“Their words come from mouths that are like open graves.
They use their lying tongues to deceive others.” Psalm 5:9
“Their words are like the poison of snakes.” Psalm 140:3
14“Their mouths are full of cursing and angry words.” Psalm 10:7
15“They are always ready to kill someone.
16Everywhere they go they cause trouble and ruin.
17They don’t know how to live in peace.” Isaiah 59:7-8
18“They have no fear or respect for God.” Psalm 36:1
19What the law says is for those who are under the law. It stops anyone from making excuses. And it brings the whole world under God’s judgment, 20because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.
How God Makes People Right
21But God has a way to make people right, and it has nothing to do with the law. He has now shown us that new way, which the law and the prophets told us about. 22God makes people right through their faith in#3:22 their faith in Or “the faithfulness of.” Jesus Christ. He does this for all who believe in Christ. Everyone is the same. 23All have sinned and are not good enough to share God’s divine greatness. 24They are made right with God by his grace. This is a free gift. They are made right with God by being made free from sin through Jesus Christ. 25-26God gave Jesus as a way to forgive people’s sins through their faith in him. God can forgive them because the blood sacrifice of Jesus pays for their sins. God gave Jesus to show that he always does what is right and fair. He was right in the past when he was patient and did not punish people for their sins. And in our own time he still does what is right. God worked all this out in a way that allows him to judge people fairly and still make right any person who has faith in Jesus.
27So do we have any reason to boast about ourselves? No reason at all. And why not? Because we are depending on the way of faith, not on what we have done in following the law. 28I mean we are made right with God through faith, not through what we have done to follow the law. This is what we believe. 29God is not only the God of the Jews. He is also the God of those who are not Jews. 30There is only one God. He will make Jews#3:30 Jews Literally, “circumcision.” right with him by their faith, and he will also make non-Jews#3:30 non-Jews Literally, “uncircumcision.” right with him through their faith. 31So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? Not at all! In fact, faith causes us to be what the law actually wants.
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