Epistle
Rom 2.28-3.18
Read in contextBrethren,
2:28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
2:29But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
3:1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
3:2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3:3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
3:5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
3:8And not [rather], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
3:9What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3:13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
3:14Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
3:15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
3:16Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
3:17And the way of peace have they not known:
3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.