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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 WEY</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="../">WEY</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">Weymouth New testament</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 special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous—I speak in our everyday language— when He inflicts punishment? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?) <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged all the same as a sinner? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And why should we not say—for so they wickedly misrepresent us, and so some charge us with arguing—"Let us do evil that good may come"? The condemnation of those who would so argue 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 Jews more highly estimated than they? Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right—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 throats resemble an opened grave; with their tongues they have been talking deceitfully." "The venom of vipers lies hidden behind their lips."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Their mouths are 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 move swiftly to shed blood.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Ruin and misery mark their path;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and the way to peace they have 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>But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed to those who are living under the Law, in order that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await sentence from God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure 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 a righteousness coming from God has been brought to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing witness to it— <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe. No distinction is made; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness— because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed— <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>with a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His righteousness, that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of faith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Is God simply the God of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also? He is certainly the God of the Gentiles also, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? 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