{"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/kjv/romans/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:56:35.550Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 profit <i>is there</i> of circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Much every way: chiefly, because that unto 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: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? <i>Is</i> God unrighteous who taketh 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 hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And not <i>rather</i>, (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 <i>than they</i>? 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 understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Their throat <i>is</i> an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps <i>is</i> under their lips:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whose mouth <i>is</i> full of cursing and bitterness:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Their feet <i>are</i> swift to shed blood:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Destruction and misery <i>are</i> 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 saith 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 <i>is</i> 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 <i>which is</i> by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon 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 hath set forth <i>to be</i> 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>I say</i>, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Where <i>is</i> boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: 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":"<i>Is he</i> the God of the Jews only? <i>is he</i> not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Seeing <i>it is</i> 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: yea, we establish the law."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[Romans 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/3 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}