3:1What more, then, is there for the Jew? 3:1Or what is the use of circumcision? 3:2Much in every way. 3:2First indeed because the words of God were entrusted to them. 3:3For what if some of them did not believe? 3:3Surely their unbelief will not make the faith of God empty? 3:3Far from it. 3:4But God is truthful: and every man a liar, just as it has been written: "So that you may be justified in your words: and may win when you are judged." But if our iniquity commends the justice of God, what shall we say? 3:5Is God unjust, who brings on anger? 3:6I speak according to man. 3:6Far from it.
3:6Otherwise how will God judge this world? 3:7For if the truth of God has abounded through my lie to his glory: why am I still judged as a sinner too? 3:8And why not (as we are blasphemed, and as some claim that we say) do evil things so that good things may come: whose condemnation is just. 3:9What then? 3:9Do we excel them? 3:9By no means. 3:9For we have charged that Jews and Greeks are all under sin, just as it has been written: "Because there is not anyone just: there is not one understanding, there is not one seeking God. 3:12All have turned aside, together they have become useless: there is not one who does good, there is not, even to one.
3:13An open tomb is their throat, with their tongues they were acting deceitfully: the venom of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness: swift are their feet for shedding blood: ruin and unhappiness are in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes." But we know that whatever things the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law: so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become subject to God: because from works of the law no flesh will be justified before him. 3:20For through the law comes knowledge of sin.
3:21But now without the law the justice of God has been made manifest: testified to by the law and the prophets. 3:22And the justice of God through faith of Jesus Christ is unto all and upon all who believe in him: for there is no distinction: for all have sinned, and lack the glory of God. 3:24Justified freely through his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in his blood, for the showing of his justice on account of the remission of preceding offences in the forbearance of God, for the showing of his justice in this time: so that he himself may be just, and justifying him who is from faith of Jesus Christ.
3:27Where then is your boasting? 3:27It has been shut out. 3:27Through what law? 3:27Of deeds? 3:27No: but through the law of faith. 3:28For we judge that a man is justified through faith without works of the law. 3:29Or is he God of the Jews only? 3:29Is he not of the nations too? 3:29Yes, of the nations too: since indeed God is one, who justifies circumcision from faith, and foreskin through faith. 3:31Do we then destroy the law through faith? 3:31Far from it: but we establish the law.