{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "romans", "chapter": 3 }, "data": { "n": 3, "bookSlug": "romans", "bookCode": "ROM", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "ROM-3:1", "verseRef": "ROM.3.1", "text": "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "ROM-3:2", "verseRef": "ROM.3.2", "text": "Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "ROM-3:3", "verseRef": "ROM.3.3", "text": "For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "ROM-3:4", "verseRef": "ROM.3.4", "text": "God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "ROM-3:5", "verseRef": "ROM.3.5", "text": "But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ROM-3:6", "verseRef": "ROM.3.6", "text": "God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ROM-3:7", "verseRef": "ROM.3.7", "text": "But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ROM-3:8", "verseRef": "ROM.3.8", "text": "and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ROM-3:9", "verseRef": "ROM.3.9", "text": "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ROM-3:10", "verseRef": "ROM.3.10", "text": "as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ROM-3:11", "verseRef": "ROM.3.11", "text": "There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ROM-3:12", "verseRef": "ROM.3.12", "text": "They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ROM-3:13", "verseRef": "ROM.3.13", "text": "Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ROM-3:14", "verseRef": "ROM.3.14", "text": "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ROM-3:15", "verseRef": "ROM.3.15", "text": "Their feet are swift to shed blood;" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ROM-3:16", "verseRef": "ROM.3.16", "text": "Destruction and misery are in their ways;" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ROM-3:17", "verseRef": "ROM.3.17", "text": "And the way of peace have they not known:" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ROM-3:18", "verseRef": "ROM.3.18", "text": "There is no fear of God before their eyes." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ROM-3:19", "verseRef": "ROM.3.19", "text": "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ROM-3:20", "verseRef": "ROM.3.20", "text": "because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ROM-3:21", "verseRef": "ROM.3.21", "text": "But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ROM-3:22", "verseRef": "ROM.3.22", "text": "even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ROM-3:23", "verseRef": "ROM.3.23", "text": "for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ROM-3:24", "verseRef": "ROM.3.24", "text": "being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ROM-3:25", "verseRef": "ROM.3.25", "text": "whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "ROM-3:26", "verseRef": "ROM.3.26", "text": "for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "ROM-3:27", "verseRef": "ROM.3.27", "text": "Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "ROM-3:28", "verseRef": "ROM.3.28", "text": "We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "ROM-3:29", "verseRef": "ROM.3.29", "text": "Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "ROM-3:30", "verseRef": "ROM.3.30", "text": "if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "ROM-3:31", "verseRef": "ROM.3.31", "text": "Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/romans/chapters/3", "book": "/v1/library/books/romans/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/romans/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }