Romans 3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

² 0 As it is written: There is not any man just.

³ 1 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

⁴ 2 All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

⁵ 3 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

⁶ 4 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

⁷ 5 Their feet swift to shed blood:

⁸ 6 Destruction and misery in their ways:

⁹ 7 And the way of peace they have not known:

¹⁰ 8 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹¹ 9 Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.

¹² 0 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

¹³ 1 But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

¹⁴ 2 Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction:

¹⁵ 3 For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.

¹⁶ 4 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,

¹⁷ 5 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

¹⁸ 6 Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time; that he himself may be just, and the justifier of him, who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ 7 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

²⁰ 8 For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

²¹ 9 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.

²² 0 For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

²³ 1 Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.

²⁴ WHAT shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh.

²⁵ For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

²⁶ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

²⁷ Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

²⁸ But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

²⁹ As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:

³⁰ Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

³¹ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.