Douay Rheims Original ↷
Romans 3 📜 📕 ↷
God Remains Faithful
1 WHAT preeminence then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?📜💬📚
2 Much by all means. First surely because the words of God were committed to them.📜💬📚
3 For what if certain of them have not believed? Hath their incredulity made the faith of God frustrate?📜💬📚
4 God forbid. But God is true, & every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged.📜💬📚
5 But if our iniquity commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust that executeth wrath? (I speak according to man)📜💬📚
6 God forbid; otherwise how shall God judge this world?📜💬📚
7 For if the verity of God hath abounded in my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner,📜💬📚
8 and not (as we are blasphemed, and as some report us to say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.📜💬📚
There Is No One Righteous
9 What then? do we excel them? No, not so. For we have argued the Jews and the Greeks, all to be under sin;📜💬📚
10 as it is written: That there is not any man just,📜💬📚
11 there is not that understandeth, there is not that seeketh after God.📜💬📚
12 All have declined, they are become unprofitable together: there is not that doeth good, there is not so much as one.📜💬📚
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps under their lips.📜💬📚
14 Whose mouth is full of malediction and bitterness:📜💬📚
15 Their feet swift to shed blood.📜💬📚
16 Destruction & infelicity in their ways:📜💬📚
17 and the way of peace they have not known.📜💬📚
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.📜💬📚
19 And we know that whatsoever the Law speaketh, to them it speaketh that are in the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, & all the world may be made subject to God:📜💬📚
20 because by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the Law is the knowledge of sin.📜💬📚
Righteousness through Faith in Christ
21 But now without the Law the justice of God is manifested; testified by the Law and the Prophets.📜💬📚
22 And the justice of God by faith of JESUS CHRIST, unto all and upon all that believe in him. For there is no distinction.📜💬📚
23 For all have sinned; and do need the glory of God.📜💬📚
24 Justified gratis by his grace, by the redemption that is in CHRIST JESUS,📜💬📚
25 whom God hath proposed a propitiation, by faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,📜💬📚
26 in the toleration of God, to the shewing of his justice in this time: that he may be just, and justifying him that is of the faith of JESUS CHRIST.📜💬📚
27 Where is then thy boasting? it is excluded. By what law? of deeds? No, but by the law of faith.📜💬📚
28 For we account a man to be justified by faith without the works of the Law.📜💬📚
29 Is he God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes of the Gentiles also.📜💬📚
30 For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and prepuce by faith.📜💬📚
31 Do we then destroy the Law by faith? God forbid, but we do establish the Law.📜💬📚
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