¹What, then, is special about the Jew? Or what is the benefit to the circumcision? ²Much in every respect. Firstly, then, because the oracles of God were entrusted to him. ³For what if some have disbelieved? Their disbelief does not make God's faithfulness void, does it? ⁴May it not be so. But let God be true and every man a liar, as it stands written: ⁵And if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Surely God, who brings wrath, is not unjust? I speak humanly. ⁶May it not be so. Otherwise, how will God judge the world? ⁷For if God's truth has abounded to his glory in the face of my untruth, why am I for my part still judged as a sinner? ⁸– and not according to how we are slanderously spoken of, and according to what some also claim that we say, namely, “Let us do evil things so that good things may come”, whose judgment is merited. ⁹What then? Are we superior? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin. ¹⁰As it stands written: ¹⁹But we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped up, and the whole world may be accountable to God, ²⁰because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law before him, for through the law is acknowledgment of sin. ²¹But now the righteousness of God has been made manifest without the law, testified to by the law and the prophets – ²²the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all and on all who believe, 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 which is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God appointed as a propitiation through faith in his blood, as a demonstration of his righteousness, for the sake of the remission of previously committed sins, ²⁶in God's forbearance, as a demonstration of his righteousness at the present time, with a view to him being just and a justifier of him who is a partaker of faith in Jesus. ²⁷So where is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? That of works? No, rather by the law of faith. ²⁸We conclude therefore that man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. ²⁹Or is God God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles too, ³⁰seeing that God, who will justify circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith, is one. ³¹Do we make the law void through faith? Far from it. Rather, we establish the law.

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.4 ↔ Psalm 51:6^MT (Psalm 51:4^AV) ● v.10 ↔ Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:2^MT (Psalm 53:1^AV), Ecclesiastes 7:20 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 14:2, Psalm 53:3^MT (Psalm 53:2^AV) ● v.12 ↔ Psalm 14:3, Psalm 53:4^MT (Psalm 53:3^AV) ● v.13 ↔ Psalm 5:10^MT (Psalm 5:9^AV), Psalm 140:4^MT (Psalm 140:3^AV) ● v.14 ↔ Psalm 10:7 ● v.15 ↔ Isaiah 59:7 ● v.16 ↔ Isaiah 59:7 ● v.17 ↔ Isaiah 59:8 ● v.18 ↔ Psalm 36:2^MT (Psalm 36:1^AV).