1What advantage then has the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? 2Much in every way: first of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3For what if some were without faith? shall their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? 4God forbid: indeed, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment. 5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visits with wrath? (I speak in the manner of men.) 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8and 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. 9What then? are we better than they? No, not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; 10as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; 11There is none who understands, There is none who seeks after God; 12They have all turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not so much as one: 13Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17And the way of peace they have not known: 18There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19Now we know that whatever things the Torah says, it speaks to those who are under the Torah; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 20because by the works of the Torah shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the Torah comes the knowledge of sin. 21But now apart from the Torah a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Torah and the prophets; 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Yeshua Messiah to all those believing; for there is no distinction; 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Messiah Yeshua: 25whom 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 previously, in the forbearance of God; 26for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present time: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Yeshua. 27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? of works? No: but by a law of faith. 28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Torah. 29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also: 30since indeed God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. 31Do we then make the Torah of none effect through faith? God forbid: no, we establish the Torah.