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          DASV: Romans 3    

1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or what is the benefit
of circumcision?
2 Much, in every way. First of all, the Jews were entrusted
with the oracles of God.
3 What if some of them did not believe? Does their lack of
faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
4 Certainly not! Let God be proven true and every human a liar.
      As it is written,
           "so that you might be justified in your words,
           and prevail when you are judged."
5 But if our unrighteousness proves the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous when he inflicts punishment
on us? (I am speaking from a human perspective.)
6 Certainly not! For how then could God judge the world?
7 But if by my lie the truth of God emphasizes his glory,
why am I also still condemned as a sinner?
8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we are saying,
"Let us do evil, that good may result?" Their condemnation
is deserved.
9 What then? Are we better than they are? Not at all, for
we have before demonstrated that both Jews and Greeks are
all under sin,
10 just as it is written,
     "There is none righteous, not even one."
11    "There is no one who understands,
      there is no one who seeks after God.
12    All have turned away,
      together they have become worthless.
   There is no one who does good,
      not even one.
13   Their throat is an open grave,
      they use their tongues to deceive.
           The poison of asps is under their lips."
14   "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
15   "Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16       ruin and misery are in their paths,
17          the way of peace they have not known."
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those
who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced,
and all the world may be accountable before God.
20 For by the works of the law no one will be justified in
his sight, for through the law comes the awareness of sin.

21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness from God
has been revealed, which is attested by the law and the
prophets,
22 the righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ
to all those who believe. For there is no distinction.
23 For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God set forth as an atoning sacrifice by his blood,
through faith. He did this to show his righteousness because
in the forbearance of God he passed over the sins previously
committed,
26 demonstrating his righteousness at this present time, so
that he might himself be just and the justifier of the one
that has faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law?
By works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart
from the works of the law.
29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of
Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too.
30 Since God is one, and he will justify those circumcised
by faith, as well as those uncircumcised through faith,
31 do we then nullify the law through faith? Not a chance.
Rather, we uphold the law.

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