Romans 33RomansAll have sinnedCatholic Public Domain Version

Catholic Public Domain VersionBerean Standard Bible

1. God Remains Faithful

2. 1CPDVSo then, what more is the Jew, or what is the usefulness of circumcision?BSBBSB: What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
3. 2CPDVMuch in every way: First of all, certainly, because the eloquence of God was entrusted to them.BSBBSB: Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
4. 3CPDVBut what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!BSBBSB: What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
5. 4CPDVFor God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”BSBBSB: Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
6. 5CPDVBut if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?BSBBSB: But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
7. 6CPDV(I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?BSBBSB: Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
8. 7CPDVFor if the truth of God has abounded, through my falseness, unto his glory, why should I still be judged as such a sinner?BSBBSB: However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
9. 8CPDVAnd should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.BSBBSB: Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

10. There Is No One Righteous

    (Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17)

11. 9CPDVWhat is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under sin,BSBBSB: What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
12. 10CPDVjust as it was written: “There is no one who is just.BSBBSB: As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
13. 11CPDVThere is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.BSBBSB: There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
14. 12CPDVAll have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.BSBBSB: All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
15. 13CPDVTheir throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.BSBBSB: “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
16. 14CPDVTheir mouth is full of curses and bitterness.BSBBSB: “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
17. 15CPDVTheir feet are swift to shed blood.BSBBSB: “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
18. 16CPDVGrief and unhappiness are in their ways.BSBBSB: ruin and misery lie in their wake,
19. 17CPDVAnd the way of peace they have not known.BSBBSB: and the way of peace they have not known.”
20. 18CPDVThere is no fear of God before their eyes.”BSBBSB: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
21. 19CPDVBut we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.BSBBSB: Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
22. 20CPDVFor in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.BSBBSB: Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

23. Righteousness through Faith in Christ

    (Philippians 3:1–11)

24. 21CPDVBut now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.BSBBSB: But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
25. 22CPDVAnd the justice of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction.BSBBSB: And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
26. 23CPDVFor all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.BSBBSB: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
27. 24CPDVWe have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,BSBBSB: and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
28. 25CPDVwhom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,BSBBSB: God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
29. 26CPDVand by the forbearance of God, to reveal his justice in this time, so that he himself might be both the Just One and the Justifier of anyone who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.BSBBSB: He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
30. 27CPDVSo then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.BSBBSB: Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
31. 28CPDVFor we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.BSBBSB: For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
32. 29CPDVIs God of the Jews only and not also of the Gentiles? On the contrary, of the Gentiles also.BSBBSB: Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
33. 30CPDVFor One is the God who justifies circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.BSBBSB: since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
34. 31CPDVAre we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.BSBBSB: Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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