Romans 3 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

All the World Guilty

1Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

2Great in every respect. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3What then? If some did not believe or were unfaithful, their lack of belief will not nullify and make invalid the faithfulness of God and His word, will it?

4Certainly not! Let God be found true, though every person be found a liar, just as it is written,

“That You may be justified in Your words,

And prevail when You are judged.”

5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not wrong to inflict His wrath, is He? (I am speaking in purely human terms.)

6Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7But if through my lie God’s truth was magnified and abounded to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

8And why not say, (as some slanderously report and claim that we teach) “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is just.

9Well then, are we better off than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) are under the control of sin and subject to its power.

10As it is written and forever remains written,

“There is none righteous, not even one.

11“There is none who understands,

There is none who seeks for God.

12“All have turned aside, together they have become useless;

There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13“Their throat is an open grave;

They deceive with their tongues.”

“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”

14“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

16Destruction and misery are in their paths,

17And they have not known the path of peace.”

18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and that all the world may be held accountable to God.

20For no person will be justified in His sight by the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin.

Justification by Faith

21But now the righteousness of God has been clearly revealed apart from the Law, though it is confirmed by the Law and the Prophets.

22This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe. There is no distinction,

23since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God,

24and are being justified as a gift by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

25whom God displayed publicly as a sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He passed over the sins previously committed.

26It was to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the One who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

27Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On works? No, but on the principle of faith.

28For we maintain that an individual is justified by faith distinctly apart from works of the Law.

29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also,

30since indeed it is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

31Do we then nullify the Law by this faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the Law.