Romans 3:1

Good News Translation

Do the Jews then have any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised?

Cross References

Genesis 25:32

Esau said, “All right! I am about to die; what good will my rights do me?”

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for other nations; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord!

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The longer you argue, the more useless it is, and you are no better off.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

How are the wise better off than fools? What good does it do the poor to know how to face life?

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It's useless to serve God. What's the use of doing what he says or of trying to show the Lord Almighty that we are sorry for what we have done?

John 4:22

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.

Romans 3:2

Much, indeed, in every way! In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews.

Romans 3:9

Well then, are we Jews in any better condition than the Gentiles? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I have, as it were, fought “wild beasts” here in Ephesus simply from human motives, what have I gained? But if the dead are not raised to life, then, as the saying goes, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Hebrews 13:9

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.