Romans 3

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 So then, what more is the Jew, or what is the usefulness of circumcision?	1 What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 Much in every way: First of all, certainly, because the eloquence of God was entrusted to them.	2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.
3 But what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!	3 For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.
4 For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”	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 even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?	5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
6 (I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?	6 (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?
7 For if the truth of God has abounded, through my falseness, unto his glory, why should I still be judged as such a sinner?	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 And should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.	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 What is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under 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 just as it was written: “There is no one who is just.	10 As it is written: There is not any man just.
11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.	11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even 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 throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under 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 mouth is full of curses and bitterness.	14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood.	15 Their feet swift to shed blood:
16 Grief and unhappiness are in their ways.	16 Destruction and misery in their ways:
17 And the way of peace they have not known.	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 But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to 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 For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.	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 But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.	21 But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
22 And the justice of God, though the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction.	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 For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.	23 For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.
24 We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,	24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,	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 by the forbearance of God, to reveal his justice in this time, so that he himself might be both the Just One and the Justifier of anyone who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.	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 then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.	27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.	28 For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
29 Is God of the Jews only and not also of the Gentiles? On the contrary, of the Gentiles also.	29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
30 For One is the God who justifies circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.	30 For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.	31 Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.