ROMANS 3:9-31

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;

²⁶for the shewing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

²⁷Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

²⁸We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

³⁰if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.