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Romans 3

1 Having granted some prerogative to the Jews, because of God’s free and stable promise, 10 He proveth by the Scriptures, both Jews and Gentiles to be sinners, 21.24 And to be justified by grace through faith, and not by works, 31 And so the Law to be established.
1.What is then the preferment of the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
2.Much every manner of way: for chiefly, because unto them were committed the ^oracles of God.
3.For what, though some did not believe? shall their *unbelief make the ^faith of God without effect?
4.God forbid: yea, let God be *true, and *every man a liar, as it is written, *That thou mightest be ajustified in thy words, and overcome, when thou art judged.
5.Now if bour unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which punisheth? (I speak cas a man)
6.God forbid: else how shall God judge the world?
7.For if the verity of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
8.And (as we are blamed, and as some affirm that we say) why do we not evil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is just.
9.What then? dare we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we have already proved, that all, both Jews and Gentiles are *under sin.
10.As it is written, *There is none righteous, no not one.
11.There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
12.They have all gone out of the way: they have been made altogether unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
13.*Their throat is an open sepulchre: they have used their tongues to deceit: *the poison of asps is under their lips.
14.*Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15.*Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16.Destruction and calamity are in their ways,
17.And the eway of peace they have not known.
18.*The fear of God is not before their eyes.
19.*Now we know that whatsoever the fLaw saith, it saith it to them which are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be gculpable before God.
20.Ther efore by the works of the hLaw shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the Law cometh the knowledge of sin.
21.But now is the *righteousness of God made manifest without the Law, having witness of the Law and of the Prophets,
22.To wit, the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all that believe.
23.For there is no difference: for all have sinned, and are ideprived of the glory of God,
24.And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25.Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his krighteousness, by the forgiveness of the sins that are passed through the patience of God,
26.To show at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and a justifier of him which is of the faith of Jesus.
27.Where is then the rejoicing? It is excluded. By what Law? of works? Nay: but by the lLaw of faith.
28.Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works of the Law.
29.God, is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.
30.For it is one God who shall justify circumcision mof faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31.Do we then make the Law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we nestablish the Law.

Notes

2-^.
Or, words.
3-*.
Isa. 46.10, chap. 9.5, 2 Tim. 2.12
3-^.
Or promise.
4-*.
John 3.33
4-*-1.
Psal. 116.11
4-*-2.
Psal. 51.4
4-a.
That thou maist be declared just, and thy goodness and truth in preforming thy promises may appear, when man either of curiosity or arrogance would judge thy works.
5-b.
He shows how the wicked do reason against God.
5-c.
Whose carnal wisdom will not obey the will of God.
9-*.
Gal. 3.22
9-d.
Lest the Jews should be puffed up in that he preferred them to the Gentiles, he shows that this their preferment stands only in the mercy of God, forasmuch as both Jew and Gentile through sin are subject to God’s wrath, that they might both be made equal in Christ.
10-*.
Psal. 14.1, and 53.1
13-*.
Psal. 5.9
13-*-1.
Psal. 140.3
14-*.
Psal. 10.7
15-*.
Pro. 1.16, Isa. 59.7
17-e.
A peaceable and innocent life.
18-*.
Psal. 36.1
19-*.
Gal 2.16
19-f.
That is, the old testament.
19-g.
The Law does not make us guilty, but does declare that we are guilty before God, and deserve condemnation.
20-h.
He means the Law either written or unwritten which commandeth or forbiddeth anything, whose works can not justify because we can not preform them.
21-*.
Chap. 2.27
23-i.
The word signifies them which are left behind in the race and are not able to run to the mark, that is to everlasting life, which here is called the glory of God.
25-k.
Or fidelity in performing his promise.
27-l.
The Law of faith is the Gospel which offers salvation with condition (if thou believe) which condition also Christ freely gives to us.
30-m.
Meaning, that they are all justified by one means, and if they will have any difference, it only stands in words: for in effect there is none.
31-n.
The doctrine of faith is the ornament of the Law: for it embraces Christ, who by his death has satisfied the Law: so that the Law which could not bring us to salvation by reason of our own corruption, is now made effectual to us by Christ Jesus.