Romans 3–6

3What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that ^aunto them were committed ^bthe oracles of God. ³For ^cwhat if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make ^dthe faith of God without effect? ^4eGod forbid: yea, let ^fGod be true, but ^gevery man a liar; as it is written, ^hThat thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. ⁵But if our unrighteousness ⁱcommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? ^k(I speak as a man) ^6eGod forbid: for then ^lhow shall God judge the world? ⁷For if ^mthe truth of God hath more abounded through ^mmy lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) ⁿLet us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? ^oare we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before ^†proved both ^pJews and ^qGentiles, that ^rthey are all under sin; ¹⁰As it is written, ^sThere is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together ^tbecome unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ^13uTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; ^xthe poison of asps is under their lips: ^14yWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ^15zaTheir feet are swift to shed blood: ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known: ^18bThere is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever ^cthe law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that ^devery mouth may be stopped, and ^eall the world may become ^||guilty before God. ^20fTherefore ^gby the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for ^hby the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now ⁱthe righteousness of God ^jwithout the law is manifested, being witnessed by ^klthe law and ^lmthe prophets; ²²Even the righteousness of God which is ⁿby faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for ^othere is no difference: ²³For ^eall have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴Being justified ^pfreely ^qby his grace ^rthrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵Whom God hath ^||sset forth ^tto be a propitiation through faith ^uin his blood, ^wto declare his righteousness for the ^||remission of ^xsins that are past, through the ^yforbearance of God; ^26wTo declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. ^27zWhere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? ^aof works? Nay: but by the law of faith. ²⁸Therefore we ^bconclude ^cthat a man is justified by faith ^dwithout the deeds of the law. ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: ³⁰Seeing ^eit is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and ^funcircumcision through faith. ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? ^gGod forbid: yea, ^hwe establish the law.

4What shall we say then that Abraham ^aour father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? ²For if Abraham were ^bjustified by works, he hath ^cwhereof to glory; ^dbut not before God. ³For what saith the scripture? ^eAbraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. ⁴Now ^fto him that worketh is the reward not ^greckoned of grace, but of debt. ⁵But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, ^hhis faith is ^gcounted for righteousness. ⁶Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God ^gimputeth righteousness ⁱwithout works, ⁷Saying, ^jBlessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. ⁹Cometh this blessedness then upon ^kthe circumcision ^lonly, or upon ^kthe uncircumcision also? for ^ewe say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹And he received ^mthe sign of circumcision, ⁿa seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that ^ohe might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: ¹²And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. ¹³For the promise, that he should be the ^pheir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴For ^qif they which are of the law be heirs, faith is ^rmade void, and ^qthe promise made of none effect: ¹⁵Because ^sthe law worketh wrath: for ^twhere no law is, ^uthere is no transgression. ¹⁶Therefore it is of faith, that it might be ^xby grace; ^yto the end the promise might be sure ^zto all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; ^awho is the father of us all, ¹⁷(As it is written, ^bI have made thee a father of many nations,) ^||before him whom he believed, even God, ^cwho quickeneth the dead, and calleth ^dthose things which be not as though they were. ¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, ^eSo shall thy seed be. ¹⁹And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now ^fdead, ^gwhen he was about an hundred years old, neither yet ^hthe deadness of Sara’s womb: ²⁰He ⁱstaggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; ²¹And ^kbeing fully persuaded that, what he had promised, ^lhe was able also to perform. ²²And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. ²³Now ^mit was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; ²⁴But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe ⁿon him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; ^25oWho was delivered for our offences, and ^pwas raised again for our ^qjustification.

5Therefore ^abeing justified by faith, we have ^bpeace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: ²By whom also ^cwe have access by faith into this grace ^dwherein we stand, and ^erejoice in hope of the glory of God. ^3fAnd not only so, but ^gwe ^eglory in tribulations also: ^hknowing that tribulation worketh patience; ⁴And patience, ⁱexperience; and ⁱexperience, hope: ⁵And ^jhope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God ^kis shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ⁶For when we were yet without strength, ^||in due time ^lChrist died for the ungodly. ⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. ⁸But God ^mcommendeth ⁿhis love toward us, in that, ^owhile we were yet sinners, ^lChrist died for us. ⁹Much more then, being now justified ^oby his blood, ^pwe shall be saved from wrath through him. ¹⁰For if, ^qwhen we were enemies, ^rwe were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by ^shis life. ^11fAnd not only so, but we also ^ejoy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the ^||atonement.

¹²Wherefore, as ^tby one man sin entered into the world, and ^udeath by sin; and so death passed upon ^zall men, ^||vfor that all have sinned: ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but ^wsin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of ^xAdam’s transgression, ^ywho is the figure of him that was to come. ¹⁵But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one ^zmany be dead, much more ^athe grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto ^zbmany. ¹⁶And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto ^cjustification. ¹⁷For if ^||by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) ¹⁸Therefore as ^||by ^dthe offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so ^||by ^dthe ^crighteousness of one the free gift came upon ^zeall men unto ^fjustification of life. ¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience ^zmany were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall ^bzmany be made righteous. ²⁰Moreover ^gthe law ^hentered, that the offence might abound. But ⁱwhere sin abounded, ^jgrace did much more abound: ²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might ^kgrace reign through righteousness unto ^leternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

6What shall we say then? ^aShall we continue in sin, that ^bgrace may abound? ^2cGod forbid. How shall we, that ^dare dead to sin, live any longer therein? ³Know ye not, that ^eso many of us as ^||were baptized ^finto Jesus Christ ^||were ^gbaptized into his death? ⁴Therefore we are ^hburied with him by baptism into death: that like as ⁱChrist was raised up from the dead by ^kthe glory of the Father, even so ^lwe also should walk in newness of life. ⁵For ^mif we have been ⁿplanted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶Knowing this, that ^oour old man ^pis crucified with him, that ^qthe body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ⁷For ^rhe that is dead is ^†sfreed from sin. ⁸Now ^tif we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ⁹Knowing that ^uChrist being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ¹⁰For in that he died, ^whe died unto sin ^xonce: but in that he liveth, he ^yliveth unto God. ¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be ^zdead indeed unto…