ROMANS 3:4-25

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

⁵But 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.)

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

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

⁸and why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

⁹What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as 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 have they not known:

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now 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:

²⁰because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

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

²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, by his blood, to shew his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;