Romans 33RomansAll have sinnedRevised Version

Revised VersionBerean Standard Bible

1. God Remains Faithful

2. 1RVWhat advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?BSBBSB: What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
3. 2RVMuch every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.BSBBSB: Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
4. 3RVFor what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?BSBBSB: What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
5. 4RVGod forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into 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. 5RVBut 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.)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. 6RVGod forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?BSBBSB: Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
8. 7RVBut if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as 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. 8RVand why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose 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. 9RVWhat then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all 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. 10RVas it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;BSBBSB: As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
13. 11RVThere is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;BSBBSB: There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
14. 12RVThey have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:BSBBSB: All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
15. 13RVTheir throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison 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. 14RVWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:BSBBSB: “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
17. 15RVTheir feet are swift to shed blood;BSBBSB: “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
18. 16RVDestruction and misery are in their ways;BSBBSB: ruin and misery lie in their wake,
19. 17RVAnd the way of peace have they not known:BSBBSB: and the way of peace they have not known.”
20. 18RVThere is no fear of God before their eyes.BSBBSB: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
21. 19RVNow 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: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. 20RVbecause by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.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. 21RVBut now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;BSBBSB: But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
25. 22RVeven the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; 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. 23RVfor all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;BSBBSB: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
27. 24RVbeing 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. 25RVwhom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, by his blood, to shew his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;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. 26RVfor the shewing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.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. 27RVWhere then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a 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. 28RVWe reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.BSBBSB: For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
32. 29RVOr is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:BSBBSB: Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
33. 30RVif so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the 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. 31RVDo we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.BSBBSB: Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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