Romans 3:1-9:33 What then the superiority of the Jew or what the advantage of circumcision?

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ What then the superiority of the Jew or what the advantage of circumcision? ² Much according to every manner: for truly first were they trusted with the oracles of God. ³ For what if some disbelieved? their unbelief will not leave inactive the faith of God. ⁴ It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged. ⁵ And if our injustice shall recommend the justice of God, what shall we say God not unjust bringing in anger? (I speak as man) ⁶ It may not be: for how shall God judge the world ⁷ For if the truth of God in my lying abounded to his glory; why yet am I judged as sinful? ⁸ And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just. ⁹ What advantage therefore have we? Not in any way: for we before accused both Jews and Greeks, all to be under sin. ¹⁰ As has been written, That there is no just one, not one: ¹¹ There is none understanding, there is none seeking God. ¹² All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one. ¹³ Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and harshness: ¹⁵ Their feet active to pour out blood: ¹⁶ Bruising and grievous toil in their ways: ¹⁷ And the way of peace they knew not: ¹⁸ The fear of God is not before their eyes. ¹⁹ And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God. ²⁰ Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets; ²² And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction: ²³ For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God; ²⁴ Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵ Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God; ²⁶ For the manifestation of his justice now in time: for him to be just, and justifying him of the faith of Jesus. ²⁷ Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. ²⁸ We reckon then man to be justified by faith without the works of the law. ²⁹ Or only the God of the Jews? and not also of the nations? Yes, also of the nations: ³⁰ Since one God, who will justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision by faith. ³¹ Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law. ⁴ ¹ What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh? ² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God. ³ For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice. ⁴ And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt. ⁵ And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice. ⁶ As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works, ⁷ Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered. ⁸ A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin. ⁹ This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice. ¹⁰ How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them: ¹² And father of circumcision to them not of circumcision only, but also to them, walking in order in the tracks of the uncircumcision, of the faith of our father Abraham. ¹³ For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith. ¹⁴ For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive: ¹⁵ For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all, ¹⁷ (As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being. ¹⁸ Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be. ¹⁹ And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb: ²⁰ And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God; ²¹ And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do. ²² And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice. ²³ And it was not written for him alone, that it was reckoned to him; ²⁴ But also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to them believing upon him having raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; ²⁵ Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification. ⁵ ¹ Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ: ² By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance; ⁴ And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope. ⁵ And hope shames not; for the love of God has been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given us. ⁶ For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious. ⁷ For scarcely for the just will any one die: yet for the good perhaps some also would venture to die. ⁸ And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, justified now in his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath. ¹⁰ For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life. ¹¹ And not only, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation. ¹² Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned: ¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law. ¹⁴ But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be. ¹⁵ But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many. ¹⁶ And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification. ¹⁷ For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.) ¹⁸ Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life. ¹⁹ For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just. ²⁰ And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded: ²¹ That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ⁶ ¹ What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace might abound ² It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it? ³ Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death? ⁴ Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if grown together we have been in the likeness of his death, but also shall we be of the resurrection: ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin. ⁷ For he having died was justified from sin. ⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe we shall also live with him: ⁹ Knowing that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more power over him. ¹⁰ For he who died, died to sin once: but he who lives, lives to God. ¹¹ So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. ¹³ Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not rule over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace It may not be. ¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice? ¹⁷ And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice. ¹⁹ (I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration. ²⁰ For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice. ²¹ Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death. ²² And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal. ²³ For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. ⁷ ¹ Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives? ² For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband. ³ Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man. ⁴ Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death. ⁶ And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. ⁷ What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire. ⁸ And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead. ⁹ And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died. ¹⁰ And the command was found to me which for life, this for death. ¹¹ For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me. ¹² Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. ¹⁷ And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. ¹⁹ For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. ²⁰ And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. ²² For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: ²³ And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. ²⁴ I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? ²⁵ I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin. ⁸ ¹ Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and death. ³ For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: ⁴ That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace. ⁷ Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be. ⁸ And they being in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. ¹⁰ And if Christ in you, truly the body dead by sin; and the Spirit life by justice. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you. ¹² Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God: ¹⁷ And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, ²¹ That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now. ²³ And not only, but also they having the first fruits of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption as a son, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope? ²⁵ And if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait. ²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit takes hold together, and assists our weaknesses: for what we would pray for as we ought, we know not, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. ²⁷ And he searching hearts knows what the thought of the Spirit, for according to God he supplicates for the holy ones. ²⁸ And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up. ²⁹ For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren. ³⁰ And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us? ³² Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all? ³³ Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying. ³⁴ Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ⁹ ¹ I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit, ² That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart. ³ For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: ⁴ Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises; ⁵ Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen. ⁶ And not as that the word of God has fallen through. For not they all of Israel, they which of Israel: ⁷ Neither that the seed of Abraham, are all children: but, In Isaac shall the seed be called to thee. ⁸ That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this the word of solemn promise, According to this time will I come, and there shall be a son to Sarah. ¹⁰ And not only; but also Rebecca, having coition of one, Isaac our father; ¹¹ (For not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that according to choice the purpose of God might remain, not of works, but of him calling;) ¹² It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less. ¹³ As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. ¹⁴ What then shall we say Is injustice with God? It may not be. ¹⁵ I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion. ¹⁶ Surely then, not of him Willing, nor of him running, but of God commiserating. ¹⁷ For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth. ¹⁸ Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens. ¹⁹ Thou wilt then say to me, Why does he yet blame For who has withstood his will? ²⁰ Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so ²¹ Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour ²² And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction: ²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory ²⁴ Whom he also called us, not only from the Jews, but also of the nations? ²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved. ²⁶ And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God. ²⁷ And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved: ²⁸ For finishing and cutting short the word in justice: for the Lord will make the word cut short upon the earth. ²⁹ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, as Sodom had we been, and as Gomorrha had we been likened. ³⁰ What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith. ³¹ And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice. ³² Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone; ³³ As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.