3: 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3: 3 For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
3: 4 35Be it not so: yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, 36That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
35Lit. May it not come to be: And so everywhere.
36Ps 51:4.
3: 5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
3: 6 Be it not so: for then how shall God judge the world?
3: 7 37But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
37So ℵA 81 1506 copbo. B 1739 33 1175 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa vg read For
3: 8 and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
3: 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
3: 10 as it is written, 38There is none righteous, no, not one;
38Ps 14:1ff; 53:1ff.
3: 11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
3: 12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:
3: 13 39Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: 40The poison of asps is under their lips:
39Ps 5:9.
40Ps 140:3.
3: 14 41Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
41Ps 10:7.
3: 15 42Their feet are swift to shed blood;
42Is 59:7f.
3: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
3: 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
3: 18 43There is no fear of God before their eyes.
43Ps 36:1.
3: 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
3: 20 because 44by 45the works of the law shall no flesh be 46justified in his sight; for 47through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
44Gk. out of
45Or, works of law so also in vs. 28.
46Or, accounted righteous
47Or, through law
3: 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3: 22 even the righteousness of God through faith 48in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
48Or, of so also in vs. 26.
3: 23 for all 49have sinned, and fall short of the 50glory of God;
49Gk. sinned,
50Lit. unmerited favor And so everywhere except Jas 1:11. Gk. χαρις, χαριτα, (Engl. cognates grace, charity). See Thayer’s lexicon.
3: 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3: 25 whom God set forth 51to be an atonement, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
51Lit. to be a mercy seat, or, to be a propitiatory,
3: 26 for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be 52just, and justifying he who is of faith in Jesus.
52See ch. 2:13 margin.
3: 27 Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what kind of law? of works? No: but by a law of faith.
3: 28 53For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
53So ℵA 1739 81 1506 cop vg. BC 33 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read We reckon therefore
3: 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also:
3: 30 if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision 54by faith, and the uncircumcision 55through the faith.
54Gk. out of faith, Gal 3:8.
55Or, through faith. so also in vs. 31.
3: 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through the faith? Be it not so: no, we establish the law.
