Romans 3:9-31

⁹What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. ¹⁰As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.

¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

¹²They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."

¹³"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

¹⁴"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

¹⁵"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways.

¹⁷The way of peace, they haven`t known."

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

¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. ²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; ²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who 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 an atoning sacrifice, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done before, in the forbearance of God; ²⁶for the showing of his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. ²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. ²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn`t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰if it is so that God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

³¹Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? Certainly not! No, we establish the law.