Berean Standard Bible

Romans 3

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25 verses with confession references in this chapter

  1. 1 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
  2. 2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God. MORE
  3. 3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? MORE
  4. 4 Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.” MORE
  5. 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
  6. 6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
  7. 7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
  8. 8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
  9. 9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. MORE
  10. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. MORE
  11. 11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. MORE
  12. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” MORE
  13. 13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” MORE
  14. 14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” MORE
  15. 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; MORE
  16. 16 ruin and misery lie in their wake, MORE
  17. 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” MORE
  18. 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” MORE
  19. 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. MORE
  20. 20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. MORE
  21. 21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. MORE
  22. 22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, MORE
  23. 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, MORE
  24. 24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. MORE
  25. 25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. MORE
  26. 26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus. MORE
  27. 27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith. MORE
  28. 28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. MORE
  29. 29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
  30. 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. MORE
  31. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law. MORE
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