Romans 3:6-30

⁶Of course not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

⁷Still, if the truth of God abounded to His glory by my falsehood, just why am I still judged as a sinner?

⁸However, we must not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come” (as some people slanderously claim that we do)—their condemnation is well deserved!

⁹What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

¹⁰Just as it is written: “No one is righteous, not even one;

¹¹there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

¹²All have turned aside, together they have been made useless; there is no one who shows kindness, no, not so much as one.”

¹³“Their throat is an opened grave; they habitually deceive with their tongues.” “Viper's venom is under their lips”;

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

¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,

¹⁷and the way of peace they have not known.”

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

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world become accountable to God.

²⁰It follows that no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes the real knowledge of sin.

²¹But now, apart from law, a righteousness from God has been revealed, being attested by the Law and the Prophets,

²²namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, into all and upon all those who believe. There is no difference:

²³all 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 has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the previously committed sins;

²⁶to demonstrate His righteousness at this present time, so as to be just, Himself, and the justifier of him who is of the Faith of Jesus.

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

²⁸Therefore we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from works of law.

²⁹Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, also for Gentiles,

³⁰since indeed there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the Faith.