Romans 3 (NET)

Romans 3:1¹Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:32Rom 2:25-29Eccl 6:11Eccl 6:8Heb 13:91 Cor 15:32Isa 1:11-15Mal 3:14

Romans 3:2²Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:38Rom 9:4Neh 9:13-14Ps 147:19-201 Cor 9:171 Pet 4:11Heb 5:122 Pet 1:19-212 Tim 3:15-17Ezek 20:11-12

Romans 3:3³What then? If some were unfaithful, their unfaithfulness will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 2:13Heb 4:2Rom 9:6Isa 55:11Titus 1:1-21 Sam 15:292 Thess 1:3Num 23:19Ps 84:7Rom 10:16

Romans 3:4⁴Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 51:4Ps 116:11Gal 2:17Heb 6:18Deut 32:4Titus 1:2John 3:33Job 36:3Ps 119:160Ps 138:2

Romans 3:5⁵But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:19Gal 3:151 Cor 9:8Rom 2:5Rom 9:18-20Deut 32:39-43Nah 1:2Rom 4:1Rom 7:71 Cor 15:32

Romans 3:6⁶Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:25Acts 17:31Job 8:3Job 34:17-19Ps 50:6Ps 9:8Ps 96:13Ps 98:9Rom 2:16Ps 11:5-7

Romans 3:7⁷For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:4Rom 9:19-20Acts 13:27-292 Kgs 8:10-15Isa 10:6-7Matt 26:34Matt 26:69-75

Romans 3:8⁸And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?—as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:1Rom 6:15Rom 5:20Rom 7:71 Pet 3:16-17Jude 1:4Matt 5:11

Romans 3:9⁹What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:22Rom 6:15Isa 65:5Rom 11:32Rom 3:22-23Rom 3:191 Cor 14:151 Cor 4:7Gal 3:10Luke 18:9-14

Romans 3:10¹⁰just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 53:1-3Ps 14:1-3Rom 3:231 John 1:8-10Job 15:14Job 25:4Mark 7:21-22Mark 10:18Matt 15:19Jer 17:9

Romans 3:11¹¹there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 14:2-4Ps 53:2Titus 3:3Hos 4:6Rom 8:7Hos 7:10Isa 31:1Isa 55:6Isa 65:1Jer 4:22

Romans 3:12¹²All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one. ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 14:3Eccl 7:20Isa 59:8Isa 64:6Isa 53:6Eccl 7:291 Pet 2:25Eph 2:3Phlm 1:11Eph 2:8-10

Romans 3:13¹³“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 5:9Ps 140:3Matt 23:27-28Jer 9:3-5Ps 57:4Ezek 13:7Isa 59:3Jas 3:5-8Matt 12:34-35Ps 52:2

Romans 3:14¹⁴“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 10:7Ps 109:17-18Ps 59:12Jas 3:10

Romans 3:15¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:7-8Prov 1:16Prov 6:18

Romans 3:16¹⁶ruin and misery are in their paths,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Romans 3:17¹⁷and the way of peace they have not known.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:8Rom 5:1Luke 1:79Matt 7:14Isa 57:21

Romans 3:18¹⁸“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 36:1Prov 23:17Prov 16:6Prov 8:13Gen 20:11Luke 23:40Rev 19:5

Romans 3:19¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:10Gal 3:22-23Rom 2:12-18Rom 3:9Ezek 16:63Gal 5:181 Cor 1:29Rom 3:23Job 9:2-3Gal 4:5

Romans 3:20²⁰For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:16Acts 13:39Rom 3:28Gal 2:19Rom 4:15Rom 4:13Rom 5:20Rom 9:32Gal 3:10-13Ps 143:2

Romans 3:21²¹But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 10:43Jer 33:16Phil 3:9Jer 23:5-6Gal 3:8Isa 51:8Isa 61:10Heb 10:1-14Isa 46:13Rom 10:3-4

Romans 3:22²²namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:12Gal 3:28Gal 2:16Rom 8:1Col 3:11Rom 5:1-11Gal 3:6-9Phil 3:9Matt 22:11-12Rom 2:1

Romans 3:23²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:201 John 1:8-10Rom 3:9Gal 3:22Rom 11:32Rom 3:191 Thess 2:122 Thess 2:141 Pet 4:13Rom 5:2

Romans 3:24²⁴But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:18-19Titus 3:5-7Col 1:14Eph 1:6-7Rom 5:9Rom 4:16Titus 2:141 Cor 1:30Matt 20:28Eph 2:7-10

Romans 3:25²⁵God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:23-241 Pet 1:18-201 John 4:101 John 2:2Col 1:20-23Heb 9:14-22Rom 5:9Acts 13:38-39Acts 17:30Heb 10:4

Romans 3:26²⁶This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:4Rom 4:5Acts 13:38-39Rom 3:30Isa 42:21Ps 85:10-11Rom 8:33Zeph 3:5Rev 15:3Zeph 3:15

Romans 3:27²⁷Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 4:2Rom 2:231 Cor 1:29-31Eph 2:8-10Gal 3:22Rom 2:171 John 5:11-12Rom 7:21Zeph 3:111 Cor 4:7

Romans 3:28²⁸For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 3:7Gal 2:16Gal 3:8Gal 3:24Rom 3:26Jas 2:24Phil 3:9Rom 4:5Rom 8:31 Cor 6:11

Romans 3:29²⁹Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:11Eph 3:6Zech 2:11Gal 3:14Gal 3:25-29Rom 9:24-26Zech 8:20-23Jer 16:19Luke 24:46-47Mark 16:15-16

Romans 3:30³⁰Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:8Gal 3:20Phil 3:3Col 2:10-11Gal 2:14-16Gal 5:6Gal 6:15Rom 4:11-12Gal 3:28Rom 3:28

Romans 3:31³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:21Matt 5:17Rom 10:4Rom 13:8-101 Cor 9:21Rom 8:4Rom 7:7-14Gal 3:17-19Jer 8:8-9Jas 2:8-12