Romans 3 · Clearspring

God Remains Faithful

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?+ ²Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.+ ³For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?+ ⁴God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.+ ⁵But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? ( I speak after the manner of men.)+ ⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?+ ⁷But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?+ ⁸and why not ( as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.+

There Is No One Righteous

Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17

⁹What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;+ ¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;+ ¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;+ ¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:+ ¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:+ ¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:+ ¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood;+ ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways;+ ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:+ ¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.+ ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:+ ²⁰because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.+

Righteousness through Faith in Christ

Philippians 3:1–11

²¹But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;+ ²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;+ 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:+ ²⁵whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;+ ²⁶for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.+ ²⁷Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.+ ²⁸We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.+ ²⁹Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:+ ³⁰if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.+ ³¹Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.+

God Remains Faithful

There Is No One Righteous

Righteousness through Faith in Christ

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