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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 3 ERV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > Romans 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/2.htm" title="Romans 2">◄</a> Romans 3 <a href="../romans/4.htm" title="Romans 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">God Remains Faithful<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../psalms/147.htm">Psalm 147:1-20</a>; <a href="../hebrews/10.htm">Hebrews 10:1-18</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>God 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But 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.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and 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.</p> <a name="9" id="9"></a><p class="hdg">There is No One Righteous<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../psalms/14.htm">Psalm 14:1-7</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What 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;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Their feet are swift to shed blood;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Destruction and misery are in their ways;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the way of peace have they not known:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There is no fear of God before their eyes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now 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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.</p> <p class="hdg">Justified by Faith</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>whom 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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>for 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? 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