{"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/asv/romans/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T04:51:09.661Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?"},{"verseNumber":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."},{"verseNumber":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.)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?"},{"verseNumber":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."},{"verseNumber":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;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Their throat is an open sepulchre; 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 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:"},{"verseNumber":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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"for all have sinned, and fall 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 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;"},{"verseNumber":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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 3 (ASV)","markdown":"[Romans 3](https://primebible.com/asv/romans/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/romans/3 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}