MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 Therefore what is the supremacy of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2 Much, according to every manner! For* indeed, first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3:3 For* what if some disbelieved? Their unbelief will not do-away-with the faith fulness of God, will it?
3:4 Let it not happen! Now, let God become true, but every man a liar; as it has been written, ‘*That you may be justified in your words and may overcome when you are judged.' {Ps. 51:4}
3:5 For* if our unrighteousness is establishing the righteousness of God, what will we say? The God who brings upon us wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak according to the manner of man.)
3:6 Let it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?
3:7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still being judged like a sinner?
3:8 And why should we not do evil, in order that good may come (just-as we are blasphemed and just-as some say we speak likewise )? Whose condemnation is just!

3:9 Then* what? Are we special? Certainly not; for* we accused, before both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
3:10 as it has been written, ‘There is none righteous, not even one.
3:11 There are none who are understanding. There are none who are seeking out God.
3:12 They shunned God. They became-useless at the same time. There is no one practicing kindness; there is not insofar as even one.' {Ps. 14:1ff & 53:1ff}
3:13 ‘Their throat is an open burial chamber; they were treacherous with their tongues.' {Ps. 5:9} ‘The poison of asps is under their lips.' {Ps. 140:3}
3:14 ‘Whose mouth is full of evil-cursing and bitterness.' {Ps. 10:7?}
3:15 ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood;
3:16 downfall and miseries are in their ways;
3:17 and they did not know the way of peace.' {Is. 59:7,8}
3:18 ‘There is no fear of God before their eyes.' {Ps. 36:1}

3:19 Now we know that inasmuch as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; that* every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;
3:20 because no flesh will be justified in his sight from the works of the law; for* through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.

3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested separate from the law, being testified by the law and the prophets;
3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all those who believe; for* there is no distinction;
3:23 for* all have sinned and fall-short of the glory of God.
3:24 All those who believe, being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
3:25 whom God purposed to be an atonement in his blood, through the faith, *for an example of his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done beforehand, in the forbearance of God,
3:26 to be the example of his righteousness in this current time, *that* he may himself be righteous and justifying him who is from the faith of Jesus.

3:27 Therefore where is the boasting? It was locked out. Through what law? Of works? No, but through a law through faith.
3:28 Therefore, we reason that a man is justified in faith separate from the works of the law.
3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also.
3:30 Since God is one, it is he who will justify the circumcision out of faith and the uncircumcision through the faith.
3:31 Therefore, do we do-away-with the law through the faith? Let it not happen! But through the faith, we are establishing the law.