1What is then the preferment of the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
2Much every manner of way: for chiefly, because unto them were of credit committed the oracles of God.
3For what, though some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4God forbid: yea, let God be true, and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and overcome, when thou art judged.
5Now if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? is God unrighteous which punisheth? (I speak as a man.)
6God forbid: (else how shall God judge the world?)
7For if the verity of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
8And (as we are blamed, and as some affirm, that we say) why do we not evil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is just.
9What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we have already proved, that all, both Jews and Gentiles are under sin,
10As it is written, There is none righteous no not one.
11There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
12They have all gone out of the way: they have been made altogether unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
13Their throat is an open sepulcher: they have used their tongues to deceit: the poison of asps is under their lips.
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16Destruction and calamity are in their ways:
17And the way of peace they have not known.
18The fear of God is not before their eyes.
19Now we know that whatsoever the law saith, it saith it to them which are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be subject to the judgment of God.
20Therefore by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the Law cometh the knowledge of sin.
21But now is the righteousness of God made manifest without the Law, having witness of the Law, and of the Prophets,
22To wit, the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all that believe.
23For there is no difference: for all have sinned, and are deprived of the glory of God,
24And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness, by the forgiveness of the sins that are passed,
26Through the patience of God, to show at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and a justifier of him which is of the faith of Jesus.
27Where is then the rejoicing? It is excluded. By what Law? of works? Nay: but by the Law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the Law.
29God, is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.
30For it is one God, who shall justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we then make the Law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law.