Romans 3

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?	1 Is there any benefit, then, in being a Jew? Is there any advantage in being circumcised?
2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.	2 A great deal, in every way. First of al , it was to the Jews that the message of God was entrusted.
3 For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.	3 What if some of them were unfaithful? Do you think their lack of faith could cancel God's faithfulness?
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.	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.
5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?	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?
6 (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?	6 Out of the question! It would mean that God could not be the judge of the world.
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?	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 .
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.	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.
9 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.	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.
10 As it is written: There is not any man just.	10 As scripture says: Not one of them is upright, not a single one,
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.	11 not a single one is wise, not a single one seeks God.
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.	12 Al have turned away, all alike turned sour, not one of them does right, not a single one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.	13 Their throats are wide -- open graves, their tongues seductive. Viper's venom behind their lips;
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:	14 their speech is ful of cursing and bitterness.
15 Their feet swift to shed blood:	15 Their feet quick to shed innocent blood,
16 Destruction and misery in their ways:	16 wherever they go there is havoc and ruin.
17 And the way of peace they have not known:	17 They do not know the way of peace,
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 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.	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.
20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.	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.
21 But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.	21 God's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealedaltogether apart from law:
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:	22 God's saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to al who believe.
23 For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.	23 No distinction is made: all have sinned and lack God's glory,
24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,	24 and all are justified by the free gift of his grace through being set free in Christ Jesus.
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,	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;
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.	26 and now again for the present age, to show how he is just and justifies everyone who has faith inJesus.
27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.	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,
28 For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.	28 since, as we see it, a person is justified by faith and not by doing what the Law tel s him to do.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.	29 Do you think God is the God only of the Jews, and not of gentiles too? Most certainly of gentiles too,
30 For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.	30 since there is only one God; he will justify the circumcised by their faith, and he will justify theuncircumcised through their faith.
31 Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.	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.