{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:31:59.335Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Their feet are swift to shed blood:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Destruction and misery are in their ways:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And the way of peace have they not known:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There is no fear of God before their eyes."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that believe: for there is no difference:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Whom God has 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;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish the law."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 3 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Romans 3](https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/3 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}