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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Chapter 3
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What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
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Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God.
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect?
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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.
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what
shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
man)
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God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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Forif the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory;
why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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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.
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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;
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As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
God.
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They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have
used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Their feet are swift to shed
blood:
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Destruction and misery are in their ways:
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And the wayof peace have they not known:
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There is no fear of God before
their eyes.
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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.
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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.
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
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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:
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For all
have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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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;
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To declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus.
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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
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Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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Seeing it is one God, which shall
justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
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