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1What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

1What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?

2Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

2Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.

3For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

3What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God's faithfulness?

4Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”

4Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."

5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

5But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)

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

6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

7For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

7Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"

8And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

8Why not say--as some slanderously claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is just!

9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

9What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

10As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;

10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;

11There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.

11there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

12They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”

12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."

13“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;

13"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The poison of vipers is on their lips."

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

14"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."

15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

15"Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

16ruin and misery mark their ways,

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

17and the way of peace they do not know."

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

18"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

19Now 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.

20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.

22even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;

22This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,

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

24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

24and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

25whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

25God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood--to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--

26to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

26he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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

29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

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

30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

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