Romans

1这样说来，犹太人有什么长处？割礼有什么益处呢？

2凡事大有好处：第一是 神的圣言交托他们。

3即便有不信的，这有何妨呢？难道他们的不信就废掉 神的信吗？

4断乎不能！不如说， 神是真实的，人都是虚谎的。如经上所记：你责备人的时候，显为公义； 被人议论的时候，可以得胜。

5我且照着人的常话说，我们的不义若显出 神的义来，我们可以怎么说呢？ 神降怒，是他不义吗？

6断乎不是！若是这样， 神怎能审判世界呢？

7若 神的真实，因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？

8为什么不说，我们可以作恶以成善呢？这是毁谤我们的人说我们有这话。这等人定罪是该当的。

没有义人

9这却怎么样呢？我们比他们强吗？决不是的！因我们已经证明：犹太人和希腊人都在罪恶之下。

10就如经上所记：没有义人，连一个也没有。

11没有明白的； 没有寻求 神的；

12都是偏离正路， 一同变为无用。 没有行善的，连一个也没有。

13他们的喉咙是敞开的坟墓； 他们用舌头弄诡诈， 嘴唇里有虺蛇的毒气，

14满口是咒骂苦毒。

15杀人流血， 他们的脚飞跑，

16所经过的路便行残害暴虐的事。

17平安的路，他们未曾知道；

18他们眼中不怕 神。

19我们晓得律法上的话都是对律法以下之人说的，好塞住各人的口，叫普世的人都伏在 神审判之下。

20所以凡有血气的，没有一个因行律法能在 神面前称义，因为律法本是叫人知罪。

因信称义

21但如今， 神的义在律法以外已经显明出来，有律法和先知为证：

22就是 神的义，因信耶稣基督加给一切相信的人，并没有分别。

23因为世人都犯了罪，亏缺了 神的荣耀；

24如今却蒙 神的恩典，因基督耶稣的救赎，就白白地称义。

25神设立耶稣作挽回祭，是凭着耶稣的血，借着人的信，要显明 神的义；因为他用忍耐的心宽容人先时所犯的罪，

26好在今时显明他的义，使人知道他自己为义，也称信耶稣的人为义。

27既是这样，哪里能夸口呢？没有可夸的了。用何法没有的呢？是用立功之法吗？不是，乃用信主之法。

28所以我们看定了：人称义是因着信，不在乎遵行律法。

29难道 神只作犹太人的 神吗？不也是作外邦人的 神吗？是的，也作外邦人的 神。

30神既是一位，他就要因信称那受割礼的为义，也要因信称那未受割礼的为义。

31这样，我们因信废了律法吗？断乎不是！更是坚固律法。

God Remains Faithful

1What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

2Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very wordsof God.

3What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speakand victorious when You judge.”

5But 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.

6Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

7However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

8Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

There Is No One Righteous

9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

10As it is written: “There is no one righteous,not even one.

11There is no one who understands,no one who seeks God.

12All have turned away,they have together become worthless;there is no one who does good,not even one.”

13“Their throats are open graves;their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

14“Their mouths are fullof cursing and bitterness.”

15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16ruin and misery lie in their wake,

17and the way of peace they have not known.”

18“There is no fear of Godbefore their eyes.”

19Now 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.

20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Righteousness through Faith in Christ

21But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

25God presented Him as an atoning sacrificein His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

26He 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.

27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.