What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the benefit of circumcision?
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Romans 3
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Much in every way. For first, indeed, the words of God were entrusted.
What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?
μὴ γένοιτο· γινέσθω δὲ ὁ θεὸς ἀληθής, πᾶς δὲ ἄνθρωπος ψεύστης, καθὼς γέγραπται· Ὅπως ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις σου καὶ νικήσεις ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε.
By no means; but let God be true, and every person a liar, just as it is written: So that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.
εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησιν, τί ἐροῦμεν; μὴ ἄδικος ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν; κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω.
But if our injustice demonstrates God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unjust who brings wrath? I speak according to man.
By no means; for how will God judge the world?
εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι,
But if the truth of God increased through my lie to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
καὶ μὴ καθὼς βλασφημούμεθα καὶ καθώς φασίν τινες ἡμᾶς λέγειν ὅτι Ποιήσωμεν τὰ κακὰ ἵνα ἔλθῃ τὰ ἀγαθά; ὧν τὸ κρίμα ἔνδικόν ἐστιν.
And not as some say we blaspheme, saying, Let us do evil so that good may come; whose judgment is just.
Τί οὖν; προεχόμεθα; οὐ πάντως, προῃτιασάμεθα γὰρ Ἰουδαίους τε καὶ Ἕλληνας πάντας ὑφ' ἁμαρτίαν εἶναι,
What then? Are we superior? Not at all, for we have already charged both Jews and Greeks that all are under sin,
As it is written, there is no one righteous, not even one,
There is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God;
All have turned aside, together they have become useless; there is no one doing good, not even one.
Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues practicing deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips,
whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness;
Their feet are swift to shed blood,
crushing and misery in their paths,
and they did not know a way of peace.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι ὅσα ὁ νόμος λέγει τοῖς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ λαλεῖ, ἵνα πᾶν στόμα φραγῇ καὶ ὑπόδικος γένηται πᾶς ὁ κόσμος τῷ θεῷ·
But we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may become accountable to God.
For no flesh will be justified before him by works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, attested by the law and the prophets,
But the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all who believe, for there is no distinction.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
ὃν προέθετο ὁ θεὸς ἱλαστήριον διὰ πίστεως ἐν τῷ αὐτοῦ αἵματι εἰς ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ διὰ τὴν πάρεσιν τῶν προγεγονότων ἁμαρτημάτων
whom God put forward as a propitiation through faith in his blood, to demonstrate his righteousness because of the passing over of former sins
ἐν τῇ ἀνοχῇ τοῦ θεοῦ, πρὸς τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν δίκαιον καὶ δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ.
In the patience of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the one who justifies the one from faith in Jesus.
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Not at all, but by the law of faith.
For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Is God only the God of the Jews? Is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles,
Since God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through faith.
Do we then abolish the law through faith? Absolutely not, but we uphold the law.