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Romans 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:1 - How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:2 - Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:3 - And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:4 - In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:5 - But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:6 - In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:7 - But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:8 - Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
(Psa 14:1–3; 53:1–4 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:9 - What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:10 - As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:11 - Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:12 - They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:13 - Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:14 - Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:15 - Their feet are quick in running after blood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:16 - Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:17 - And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:18 - There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:19 - Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:20 - Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Justification by Faith

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:21 - But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:22 - That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:23 - For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:24 - And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:25 - Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:26 - And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 - What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:28 - For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:29 - Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:30 - If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:31 - Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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