3:1 Quid ergo amplius Judæo est ? aut quæ utilitas circumcisionis ?

3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

3:2 Multum per omnem modum. Primum quidem quia credita sunt illis eloquia Dei.

3:2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

3:3 Quid enim si quidam illorum non crediderunt ? numquid incredulitas illorum fidem Dei evacuabit ? Absit.

3:3 For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

3:4 Est autem Deus verax : omnis autem homo mendax, sicut scriptum est : Ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis : et vincas cum judicaris.

3:4 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

3:5 Si autem iniquitas nostra justitiam Dei commendat, quid dicemus ? Numquid iniquus est Deus, qui infert iram ?

3:5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

3:6 secundum hominem dico. Absit. Alioquin quomodo judicabit Deus hunc mundum ?

3:6 (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

3:7 Si enim veritas Dei in meo mendacio abundavit in gloriam ipsius : quid adhuc et ego tamquam peccator judicor ?

3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

3:8 et non (sicut blasphemamur, et sicut aiunt quidam nos dicere) faciamus mala ut veniant bona : quorum damnatio justa est.

3:8 And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

3:9 Quid ergo ? præcellimus eos ? Nequaquam. Causati enim sumus Judæos et Græcos omnes sub peccato esse,

3:9 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

3:10 sicut scriptum est : Quia non est justus quisquam :

3:10 As it is written: There is not any man just.

3:11 non est intelligens, non est requirens Deum.

3:11 There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

3:12 Omnes declinaverunt, simul inutiles facti sunt : non est qui faciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.

3:12 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.

3:13 Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum, linguis suis dolose agebant : venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum :

3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

3:14 quorum os maledictione, et amaritudine plenum est :

3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

3:15 veloces pedes eorum ad effundendum sanguinem :

3:15 Their feet swift to shed blood:

3:16 contritio et infelicitas in viis eorum :

3:16 Destruction and misery in their ways:

3:17 et viam pacis non cognoverunt :

3:17 And the way of peace they have not known.

3:18 non est timor Dei ante oculos eorum.

3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

3:19 Scimus autem quoniam quæcumque lex loquitur, iis, qui in lege sunt, loquitur : ut omne os obstruatur, et subditus fiat omnis mundus Deo :

3:19 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.

3:20 quia ex operibus legis non justificabitur omnis caro coram illo. Per legem enim cognitio peccati.

3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

3:21 Nunc autem sine lege justitia Dei manifestata est : testificata a lege et prophetis.

3:21 But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

3:22 Justitia autem Dei per fidem Jesu Christi in omnes et super omnes qui credunt in eum : non enim est distinctio :

3:22 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.

3:23 omnes enim peccaverunt, et egent gloria Dei.

3:23 For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.

3:24 Justificati gratis per gratiam ipsius, per redemptionem quæ est in Christo Jesu,

3:24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

3:25 quem proposuit Deus propitiationem per fidem in sanguine ipsius, ad ostensionem justitiæ suæ propter remissionem præcedentium delictorum

3:25 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,

3:26 in sustentatione Dei, ad ostensionem justitiæ ejus in hoc tempore : ut sit ipse justus, et justificans eum, qui est ex fide Jesu Christi.

3:26 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.

3:27 Ubi est ergo gloriatio tua ? Exclusa est. Per quam legem ? Factorum ? Non : sed per legem fidei.

3:27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

3:28 Arbitramur enim justificari hominem per fidem sine operibus legis.

3:28 For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

3:29 An Judæorum Deus tantum ? nonne et gentium ? Immo et gentium :

3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also.

3:30 quoniam quidem unus est Deus, qui justificat circumcisionem ex fide, et præputium per fidem.

3:30 For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

3:31 Legem ergo destruimus per fidem ? Absit : sed legem statuimus.

3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.