3:1  Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what benefit does circumcision have?

3:2   Great in every respect. First of all, that God entrusted them with His oracles.

3:3  What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

3:4  May it never happen! Rather, let us find God true, though every man lie, as the scripture reads, " THAT YOU MAY FIND JUSTIFICATION IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU RECEIVE JUDGMENT."

3:5  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath does not act unrighteously, does He? (I speak in human terms.)

3:6  May it never happen! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

3:7  But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why has God judged me as a sinner?

3:8  And why not say (as some have slanderously reported of us and as some claim that we say), " Let us do evil that good may come"? They deserve their condemnation.

3:9  What then? Do we have more value than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks have placed themselves all under sin;

3:10  as the scriptures read, " THERE EXISTS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;

3:11   NO ONE UNDERSTANDS, NO ONE SEEKS FOR GOD;

3:12  ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; NO ONE DOES GOOD, NOT EVEN ONE."

3:13  " THEIR THROAT RESMBLES AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," " THE POISON OF ASPS RESIDES UNDER THEIR LIPS";

3:14  " WHOSE MOUTH FILLS WITH CURSING AND BITTERNESS";

3:15  " THEIR FEET SWIFTLY SHED BLOOD,

3:16  DESTRUCTION AND MISERY LURK IN THEIR PATHS,

3:17  AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."

3:18  " NO FEAR OF GOD EXISTS BEFORE THEIR EYES."

3:19  Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who live under the Law, so that every mouth may close and all the world may become accountable to God;

3:20  0because by the works of the Law no flesh will receive justification in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

3:21  But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has manifested, witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

3:22  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there no distinction exists;

3:23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

3:24  receiving justification as a gift by His grace through the redemption which we find in Christ Jesus;

3:25  whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith This demonstrated His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

3:26  for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would act justly just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

3:27  Where can we boast? We exclude it By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

3:28  For we maintain that a man receives justification by faith apart from works of the Law.

3:29  Or do we consider God the God of Jews only? Do we not consider Him the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

3:30  since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith we recognize as the same God.

3:31   Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never happen! On the contrary, we establish the Law