Romans

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

2Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

4God 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.

5But 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.)

6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8and 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.

9What 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;

10as it is written,There is none righteous, no, not one;

11There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:

13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

17And the way of peace have they not known:

18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19Now 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:

20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

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

24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;

26for the showing, 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.

27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

30if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

1這樣說來，猶太人有甚麼長處？割禮有甚麼益處呢？

2凡事大有好處：第一是上帝的聖言交託他們。

3即便有不信的，這有何妨呢？難道他們的不信就廢掉上帝的信嗎？

4斷乎不能！不如說，上帝是真實的，人都是虛謊的。如經上所記：你責備人的時候，顯為公義； 被人議論的時候，可以得勝。

5我且照着人的常話說，我們的不義若顯出上帝的義來，我們可以怎麼說呢？上帝降怒，是他不義嗎？

6斷乎不是！若是這樣，上帝怎能審判世界呢？

7若上帝的真實，因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？

8為甚麼不說，我們可以作惡以成善呢？這是毀謗我們的人說我們有這話。這等人定罪是該當的。

沒有義人

9這卻怎麼樣呢？我們比他們強嗎？決不是的！因我們已經證明：猶太人和希臘人都在罪惡之下。

10就如經上所記：沒有義人，連一個也沒有。

11沒有明白的； 沒有尋求上帝的；

12都是偏離正路， 一同變為無用。 沒有行善的，連一個也沒有。

13他們的喉嚨是敞開的墳墓； 他們用舌頭弄詭詐， 嘴唇裏有虺蛇的毒氣，

14滿口是咒罵苦毒。

15殺人流血， 他們的腳飛跑，

16所經過的路便行殘害暴虐的事。

17平安的路，他們未曾知道；

18他們眼中不怕上帝。

19我們曉得律法上的話都是對律法以下之人說的，好塞住各人的口，叫普世的人都伏在上帝審判之下。

20所以凡有血氣的，沒有一個因行律法能在上帝面前稱義，因為律法本是叫人知罪。

因信稱義

21但如今，上帝的義在律法以外已經顯明出來，有律法和先知為證：

22就是上帝的義，因信耶穌基督加給一切相信的人，並沒有分別。

23因為世人都犯了罪，虧缺了上帝的榮耀；

24如今卻蒙上帝的恩典，因基督耶穌的救贖，就白白地稱義。

25上帝設立耶穌作挽回祭，是憑着耶穌的血，藉着人的信，要顯明上帝的義；因為他用忍耐的心寬容人先時所犯的罪，

26好在今時顯明他的義，使人知道他自己為義，也稱信耶穌的人為義。

27既是這樣，哪裏能誇口呢？沒有可誇的了。用何法沒有的呢？是用立功之法嗎？不是，乃用信主之法。

28所以我們看定了：人稱義是因着信，不在乎遵行律法。

29難道上帝只作猶太人的上帝嗎？不也是作外邦人的上帝嗎？是的，也作外邦人的上帝。

30上帝既是一位，他就要因信稱那受割禮的為義，也要因信稱那未受割禮的為義。

31這樣，我們因信廢了律法嗎？斷乎不是！更是堅固律法。