New American Standard Bible 1995

Romans 3:1-8

1Then what 1advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? 2Great in every respect. First of all, that 2they were entrusted with the 3oracles of God. 3What then? If 4some 5did not believe, their 6unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? 4 7May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found 8a liar, as it is written, “9That You may be justified in Your words, And prevail when You 10are judged.” 5But if our unrighteousness 11 12demonstrates the righteousness of God, 13what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (14I am speaking in human terms.) 6 15May it never be! For otherwise, how will 16God judge the world? 7But if through my lie 17the truth of God abounded to His glory, 18why am I also still being judged as a sinner? 8And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “19Let us do evil that good may come”? 20Their condemnation is just.

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Notes

1. Romans 3:1 Lit is the advantage of the Jew ↩
2. Romans 3:2 Deut 4:8; Ps 147:19; Rom 9:4 ↩
3. Romans 3:2 Acts 7:38 ↩
4. Romans 3:3 Rom 10:16; Heb 4:2 ↩
5. Romans 3:3 Or were unfaithful ↩
6. Romans 3:3 Or unfaithfulness ↩
7. Romans 3:4 Luke 20:16; Rom 3:6, 31 ↩
8. Romans 3:4 Ps 116:11; Rom 3:7 ↩
9. Romans 3:4 Ps 51:4 ↩
10. Romans 3:4 Lit in Your judging ↩
11. Romans 3:5 Or commends ↩
12. Romans 3:5 Rom 5:8; 2 Cor 6:4; 7:11 ↩
13. Romans 3:5 Rom 4:1; 7:7; 8:31; 9:14, 30 ↩
14. Romans 3:5 Rom 6:19; 1 Cor 9:8; 15:32; Gal 3:15 ↩
15. Romans 3:6 Luke 20:16; Rom 3:4, 31 ↩
16. Romans 3:6 Rom 2:16 ↩
17. Romans 3:7 Rom 3:4 ↩
18. Romans 3:7 Rom 9:19 ↩
19. Romans 3:8 Rom 6:1 ↩
20. Romans 3:8 Lit Whose ↩

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