Romans 3

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Is there any benefit, then, in being a Jew? Is there any advantage in being circumcised?	1 What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 A great deal, in every way. First of al , it was to the Jews that the message of God was entrusted.	2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.
3 What if some of them were unfaithful? Do you think their lack of faith could cancel God's faithfulness?	3 For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.
4 Out of the question! God wil always be true even if no human being can be relied on. As scripturesays: That you may show your saving justice when you pass sentence and your victory may appear when yougive judgement.	4 But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our injustice serves to bring God's saving justice into view, can we say that God is unjust when --to use human terms -- he brings his retribution down on us?	5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
6 Out of the question! It would mean that God could not be the judge of the world.	6 (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?
7 You might as wel say that if my untruthfulness makes God demonstrate his truthfulness, to his greaterglory, then I should not be judged to be a sinner at al .	7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
8 In this case, the slanderous report some people are spreading would be true, that we teach that oneshould do evil that good may come of it. In fact such people are justly condemned.	8 And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.
9 Wel : are we any better off? Not at al : we have already indicted Jews and Greeks as being al alikeunder the dominion of sin.	9 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
10 As scripture says: Not one of them is upright, not a single one,	10 As it is written: There is not any man just.
11 not a single one is wise, not a single one seeks God.	11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 Al have turned away, all alike turned sour, not one of them does right, not a single one.	12 All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.
13 Their throats are wide -- open graves, their tongues seductive. Viper's venom behind their lips;	13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
14 their speech is ful of cursing and bitterness.	14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet quick to shed innocent blood,	15 Their feet swift to shed blood:
16 wherever they go there is havoc and ruin.	16 Destruction and misery in their ways:
17 They do not know the way of peace,	17 And the way of peace they have not known:
18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.	18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we are wel aware that whatever the Law says is said for those who are subject to the Law, sothat every mouth may be silenced, and the whole world brought under the judgement of God.	19 Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.
20 So then, no human being can be found upright at the tribunal of God by keeping the Law; al that theLaw does is to tell us what is sinful.	20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 God's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealedaltogether apart from law:	21 But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
22 God's saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to al who believe.	22 Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction:
23 No distinction is made: all have sinned and lack God's glory,	23 For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.
24 and all are justified by the free gift of his grace through being set free in Christ Jesus.	24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,
25 God appointed him as a sacrifice for reconciliation, through faith, by the shedding of his blood, and soshowed his justness; first for the past, when sins went unpunished because he held his hand;	25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,
26 and now again for the present age, to show how he is just and justifies everyone who has faith inJesus.	26 Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time; that he himself may be just, and the justifier of him, who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.
27 So what becomes of our boasts? There is no room for them. On what principle- that only actionscount? No; that faith is what counts,	27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 since, as we see it, a person is justified by faith and not by doing what the Law tel s him to do.	28 For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
29 Do you think God is the God only of the Jews, and not of gentiles too? Most certainly of gentiles too,	29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
30 since there is only one God; he will justify the circumcised by their faith, and he will justify theuncircumcised through their faith.	30 For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Are we saying that the Law has been made pointless by faith? Out of the question; we are placing theLaw on its true footing.	31 Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.