1 What advantage does the Jew have then? Or what profit is there in circumcision?
2 Much every way, mainly because they believed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some refused to believe? Shall their unbelief make the supernatural belief and trust of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your utterances, and might overcome when You are judged."
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous Who brings judgment? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God has abounded more through my lie into His glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Their judgment is just.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way, for we have before accused both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous, no, not one.
11 There is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks after God.
12 They have all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one who does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. *
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 And the way of peace they have not known.
18 There is no reverence of God before their eyes."
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is visible, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; *
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by the supernatural belief and trust of Jesus Christ into all and on all them who believe, for there is no difference,
23 for all have wandered from the path and failed to receive glory in the judgment of God. *
24 Being justified freely by His divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption through the release from bondage to [sin] that is in Christ Jesus, *
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation to God and appeasement of the wrath of God through supernatural belief and trust in His blood, into evidence of His righteousness for the disregarding of sins that are past, through the tolerance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him who supernatural belief and trust in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No, but by the law of supernatural belief and trust.
28 Therefore we accept the reality that a man is justified by supernatural belief and trust without the deeds of the law.
29 Is He the God of the Jews only? Isn't He also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, Who shall justify the circumcision by supernatural belief and trust and uncircumcision through supernatural belief and trust.
31 Do we then make the law void through supernatural belief and trust? God forbid: yes, we establish the law.