Romans 3

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?	1 What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.	2 Much, in every respect. (For) in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?	3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity of God?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.	4 Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written: "That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged."
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)	5 But if our wickedness provides proof of God's righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?	6 Of course not! For how else is God to judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?	7 But if God's truth redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.	8 And why not say--as we are accused and as some claim we say--that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;	9 Well, then, are we better off? Not entirely, for we have already brought the charge against Jews and Greeks alike that they are all under the domination of sin,
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:	10 as it is written: "There is no one just, not one,
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.	11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.	12 All have gone astray; all alike are worthless; there is not one who does good, (there is not) even one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:	13 Their throats are open graves; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is on their lips;
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:	14 their mouths are full of bitter cursing.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:	15 Their feet are quick to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:	16 ruin and misery are in their ways,
17 And the way of peace have they not known:	17 and the way of peace they know not.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.	18 There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.	19 Now we know that what the law says is addressed to those under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world stand accountable to God,
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.	20 since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;	21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets,
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:	22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction;
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;	23 all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:	24 They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;	25 whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed,
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.	26 through the forbearance of God--to prove his righteousness in the present time, that he might be righteous and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.	27 What occasion is there then for boasting? It is ruled out. On what principle, that of works? No, rather on the principle of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.	28 For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:	29 Does God belong to Jews alone? Does he not belong to Gentiles, too? Yes, also to Gentiles,
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.	30 for God is one and will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.	31 Are we then annulling the law by this faith? Of course not! On the contrary, we are supporting the law.