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Romans 3
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?
1How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
2Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.
2Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
3For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!
3And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?
4But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
4In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
5But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
5But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
6(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?
6In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
7But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
8And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.
8Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
9What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
10As it is written: There is not any man just.
10As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
11There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.
11Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
12All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.
12They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
13Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
13Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
19Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.
19Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
20Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
21But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
22Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction.
22That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
23For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.
23For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
24Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
24And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
25Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,
25Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
26Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ
26And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
27Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
27What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
28For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
28For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.
29Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also.
29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: