Bible Book - INDEX

MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

3:1       Therefore, what is the supremacy of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

3:2 Much, according-to every manner! For^* indeed, first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3:3 For^* what if some disbelieved? Their unbelief will not be doing-away-with the faithfulness of God, will it?

3:4 Let it not happen! Now, let God become {i.e., be} true, but every man a liar, just-as it has been written, ‘^*That you should be made righteous in your words and may overcome while^* you were being judged.’ {Psa 51:4}

3:5 But if our unrighteousness is establishing the righteousness of God, what will we say? The God who brings upon us the wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak according-to the manner of man.)

3:6 Let it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?      

3:7 For^* if the truth of God in my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still being judged like a sinner?

3:8 And just-as we are blasphemed and just-as some say us to speak: why not Let us do^* evil things in-order-that good things might come? Whose condemnation is just!      

3:9 Therefore, what? Are we Jews special? Certainly not; for^* we accused beforehand, both Jews and Greeks to all be under sin;

3:10 just-as it has been written, ‘There is none righteous, not even one.

3:11 There is none understanding. There is none seeking out God.

3:12 They all shunned God at the same-time they were becoming-useless. There is none practicing kindness; there is none as-far-as even one.’ {Psa 14:1-3 & 53:1-3}

3:13 ‘Their throat has been an opened burial chamber; they were being treacherous with their tongues.’ {Psa 5:9} ‘The poison of the asps is under their lips.’ {Psa 140:3}

3:14 ‘Whose mouth is full of evil-cursing and bitterness.’ {Psa 10:7?}

3:15 ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood;

3:16 downfall and misery is in their ways;

3:17 and they did not know the way of peace.’ {Isa 59:7,8}

3:18 ‘There is no fear of God facing their eyes.’ {Psa 36:1}      

3:19 Now we know that as many things as the law says, it is speaking to the ones in the law; in-order-that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under a sentence to God;

3:20 because every flesh will not be made righteous in his sight from the works of the law; for^* through the law comes the full-knowledge of sin.      

3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested separate from the law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all the ones believing; for^* there is no distinction;

3:23 for^* all have sinned and come-short of the glory of God.

3:24 All those who believe are freely made righteous in his grace, through the redemption, the one which is in Christ Jesus,

3:25 whom God purposed as an atonement through the faith in his blood in an example of his righteousness, because of the passing-over of the sins which has happened beforehand

3:26 (in the forbearance of God), even toward the example of his righteousness in the current time, that^* he may himself be righteous and who is making righteous the one from the faith of Jesus.      

3:27 Therefore, where is the boasting? It was locked out. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

3:28 Therefore, we are reasoning a man to be made righteous in faith separate from the works of the law.

3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only and not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also.

3:30 Since God is one, it is he who will be making righteous the circumcision out-of faith and the uncircumcision through the faith.

3:31 Therefore, do we do-away-with the law through the faith? Let it not happen! But through the faith, we are establishing the law.