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World English Bible

Romans 3 (WEBP)

[1] Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
[2] Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
[3] For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
[4] May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
[5] But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
[6] May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
[7] For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
[8] Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
[9] What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
[10] As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
[11] There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
[12] They have all turned away. 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] “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
[15] “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
[16] Destruction and misery are in their ways.
[17] The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
[18] “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
[19] Now 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.
[20] Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
[21] But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
[22] even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
[23] for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
[24] being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
[25] whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
[26] to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
[27] Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
[28] We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
[29] Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
[30] since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
[31] Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans 3:4
Romans 3:12 ; ;
Romans 3:13a
Romans 3:13b
Romans 3:14
Romans 3:17
Romans 3:18
Romans 3:25 or, a propitiation

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Romans 3 (KJVS)

[1] What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
[2] Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
[3] For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
[4] God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, And mightest overcome when thou art judged.
[5] But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
[6] God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
[7] For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
[8] And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
[9] What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
[10] as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
[11] There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God.
[12] They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
[13] Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips:
[14] Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
[15] Their feet are swift to shed blood:
[16] Destruction and misery are in their ways:
[17] And the way of peace have they not known:
[18] There is no fear of God before their eyes.
[19] Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
[20] Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
[21] But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
[22] even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
[23] for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
[24] being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
[25] whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
[26] to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
[27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
[28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
[29] Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
[30] seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
[31] Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Romans 3:9 Gr. charged
Romans 3:19 Or, subject to the judgment of God
Romans 3:25a Or, foreordained
Romans 3:25b Or, passing over

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Romans 3 (BYZ)

[1] Τί () οὖν () τὸ () περισσὸν () τοῦ () Ἰουδαίου, () ἢ () τίς () ἡ () ὠφέλεια () τῆς () περιτομῆς; ()
[2] Πολὺ () κατὰ () πάντα () τρόπον· () πρῶτον () μὲν () γὰρ () ὅτι () ἐπιστεύθησαν () τὰ () λόγια () τοῦ () θεοῦ. ()
[3] Τί () γὰρ () εἰ () ἠπίστησάν () τινες; () Μὴ () ἡ () ἀπιστία () αὐτῶν () τὴν () πίστιν () τοῦ () θεοῦ () καταργήσει; ()
[4] Μὴ () γένοιτο· () γινέσθω () δὲ () ὁ () θεὸς () ἀληθής, () πᾶς () δὲ () ἄνθρωπος () ψεύστης, () καθὼς () γέγραπται, () Ὅπως () ἂν () δικαιωθῇς () ἐν () τοῖς () λόγοις () σου, () καὶ () νικήσῃς () ἐν () τῷ () κρίνεσθαί () σε. ()
[5] Εἰ () δὲ () ἡ () ἀδικία () ἡμῶν () θεοῦ () δικαιοσύνην () συνίστησιν, () τί () ἐροῦμεν; () Μὴ () ἄδικος () ὁ () θεὸς () ὁ () ἐπιφέρων () τὴν () ὀργήν;— () κατὰ () ἄνθρωπον () λέγω— ()
[6] Μὴ () γένοιτο· () ἐπεὶ () πῶς () κρινεῖ () ὁ () θεὸς () τὸν () κόσμον; ()
[7] Εἰ () γὰρ () ἡ () ἀλήθεια () τοῦ () θεοῦ () ἐν () τῷ () ἐμῷ () ψεύσματι () ἐπερίσσευσεν () εἰς () τὴν () δόξαν () αὐτοῦ, () τί () ἔτι () κἀγὼ () ὡς () ἁμαρτωλὸς () κρίνομαι; ()
[8] Καὶ () μή— () καθὼς () βλασφημούμεθα, () καὶ () καθώς () φασίν () τινες () ἡμᾶς () λέγειν— () ὅτι () Ποιήσωμεν () τὰ () κακὰ () ἵνα () ἔλθῃ () τὰ () ἀγαθά; () Ὧν () τὸ () κρίμα () ἔνδικόν () ἐστιν. ()
[9] Τί () οὖν; () Προεχόμεθα; () Οὐ () πάντως· () προῃτιασάμεθα () γὰρ () Ἰουδαίους () τε () καὶ () Ἕλληνας () πάντας () ὑφ’ () ἁμαρτίαν () εἶναι, ()
[10] καθὼς () γέγραπται () ὅτι () Οὐκ () ἔστιν () δίκαιος () οὐδὲ () εἷς· ()
[11] οὐκ () ἔστιν () ὁ () συνιῶν, () οὐκ () ἔστιν () ὁ () ἐκζητῶν () τὸν () θεόν· ()
[12] πάντες () ἐξέκλιναν, () ἅμα () ἠχρειώθησαν· () οὐκ () ἔστιν () ποιῶν () χρηστότητα, () οὐκ () ἔστιν () ἕως () ἑνός· ()
[13] τάφος () ἀνεῳγμένος () ὁ () λάρυγξ () αὐτῶν, () ταῖς () γλώσσαις () αὐτῶν () ἐδολιοῦσαν· () ἰὸς () ἀσπίδων () ὑπὸ () τὰ () χείλη () αὐτῶν· ()
[14] ὧν () τὸ () στόμα () ἀρᾶς () καὶ () πικρίας () γέμει· ()
[15] ὀξεῖς () οἱ () πόδες () αὐτῶν () ἐκχέαι () αἷμα· ()
[16] σύντριμμα () καὶ () ταλαιπωρία () ἐν () ταῖς () ὁδοῖς () αὐτῶν, ()
[17] καὶ () ὁδὸν () εἰρήνης () οὐκ () ἔγνωσαν· ()
[18] οὐκ () ἔστιν () φόβος () θεοῦ () ἀπέναντι () τῶν () ὀφθαλμῶν () αὐτῶν. ()
[19] Οἴδαμεν () δὲ () ὅτι () ὅσα () ὁ () νόμος () λέγει, () τοῖς () ἐν () τῷ () νόμῳ () λαλεῖ, () ἵνα () πᾶν () στόμα () φραγῇ, () καὶ () ὑπόδικος () γένηται () πᾶς () ὁ () κόσμος () τῷ () θεῷ· ()
[20] διότι () ἐξ () ἔργων () νόμου () οὐ () δικαιωθήσεται () πᾶσα () σὰρξ () ἐνώπιον () αὐτοῦ· () διὰ () γὰρ () νόμου () ἐπίγνωσις () ἁμαρτίας. ()
[21] Νυνὶ () δὲ () χωρὶς () νόμου () δικαιοσύνη () θεοῦ () πεφανέρωται, () μαρτυρουμένη () ὑπὸ () τοῦ () νόμου () καὶ () τῶν () προφητῶν· ()
[22] δικαιοσύνη () δὲ () θεοῦ () διὰ () πίστεως () Ἰησοῦ () χριστοῦ () εἰς () πάντας () καὶ () ἐπὶ () πάντας () τοὺς () πιστεύοντας· () οὐ () γάρ () ἐστιν () διαστολή· ()
[23] πάντες () γὰρ () ἥμαρτον () καὶ () ὑστεροῦνται () τῆς () δόξης () τοῦ () θεοῦ, ()
[24] δικαιούμενοι () δωρεὰν () τῇ () αὐτοῦ () χάριτι () διὰ () τῆς () ἀπολυτρώσεως () τῆς () ἐν () χριστῷ () Ἰησοῦ· ()
[25] ὃν () προέθετο () ὁ () θεὸς () ἱλαστήριον, () διὰ () τῆς () πίστεως, () ἐν () τῷ () αὐτοῦ () αἵματι, () εἰς () ἔνδειξιν () τῆς () δικαιοσύνης () αὐτοῦ, () διὰ () τὴν () πάρεσιν () τῶν () προγεγονότων () ἁμαρτημάτων, ()
[26] ἐν () τῇ () ἀνοχῇ () τοῦ () θεοῦ· () πρὸς () ἔνδειξιν () τῆς () δικαιοσύνης () αὐτοῦ () ἐν () τῷ () νῦν () καιρῷ, () εἰς () τὸ () εἶναι () αὐτὸν () δίκαιον () καὶ () δικαιοῦντα () τὸν () ἐκ () πίστεως () Ἰησοῦ. ()
[27] Ποῦ () οὖν () ἡ () καύχησις; () Ἐξεκλείσθη. () Διὰ () ποίου () νόμου; () Τῶν () ἔργων; () Οὐχί, () ἀλλὰ () διὰ () νόμου () πίστεως. ()
[28] Λογιζόμεθα () οὖν () πίστει () δικαιοῦσθαι () ἄνθρωπον, () χωρὶς () ἔργων () νόμου. ()
[29] Ἢ () Ἰουδαίων () ὁ () θεὸς () μόνον; () Οὐχὶ () δὲ () καὶ () ἐθνῶν; () Ναὶ () καὶ () ἐθνῶν· ()
[30] ἐπείπερ () εἷς () ὁ () θεός, () ὃς () δικαιώσει () περιτομὴν () ἐκ () πίστεως, () καὶ () ἀκροβυστίαν () διὰ () τῆς () πίστεως. ()
[31] Νόμον () οὖν () καταργοῦμεν () διὰ () τῆς () πίστεως; () Μὴ () γένοιτο· () ἀλλὰ () νόμον () ἱστῶμεν. ()

Romans 3:1 ὠφέλεια ¦ WH ὠφέλια
Romans 3:2 γὰρ ¦ [NA WH]
Romans 3:4a γινέσθω ¦ TH γεινέσθω
Romans 3:4b καθὼς ¦ WH καθάπερ
Romans 3:4c νικήσῃς ¦ CT PT RPmg νικήσεις
Romans 3:7 γὰρ ¦ NA SBL WH δὲ
Romans 3:8 καὶ ¦ [WH]
Romans 3:10 ὅτι ¦ PCK RPmg om.
Romans 3:11a ὁ ¦ WH om.
Romans 3:11b ὁ ¦ WH om.
Romans 3:12a ἐξέκλιναν ¦ TH ἐξέκλειναν
Romans 3:12b ἠχρειώθησαν ¦ CT ἠχρεώθησαν
Romans 3:12c ποιῶν ¦ NA ὁ ποιῶν
Romans 3:12d οὐκ ἔστιν ¦ [NA]
Romans 3:22a Ἰησοῦ ¦ [WH]
Romans 3:22b καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας ¦ CT om.
Romans 3:25 τῆς ¦ [NA] ¦ SBL WH om.
Romans 3:26 ἔνδειξιν ¦ CT τὴν ἔνδειξιν
Romans 3:28 οὖν πίστει δικαιοῦσθαι ¦ CT γὰρ δικαιοῦσθαι πίστει
Romans 3:29 δὲ ¦ CT om.
Romans 3:30 ἐπείπερ ¦ CT εἴπερ
Romans 3:31 ἱστῶμεν ¦ CT ἱστάνομεν

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.