Romans 3

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

إِذًا مَا هُوَ فَضْلُ الْيَهُودِيِّ، أَوْ مَا هُوَ نَفْعُ الْخِتَانِ؟

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

كَثِيرٌ عَلَى كُلِّ وَجْهٍ! أَمَّا أَوَّلاً فَلأَنَّهُمُ اسْتُؤْمِنُوا عَلَى أَقْوَالِ اللهِ.

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

فَمَاذَا إِنْ كَانَ قَوْمٌ لَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ؟ أَفَلَعَلَّ عَدَمَ أَمَانَتِهِمْ يُبْطِلُ أَمَانَةَ اللهِ؟

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

حَاشَا! بَلْ لِيَكُنِ اللهُ صَادِقًا وَكُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ كَاذِبًا. كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ: «لِكَيْ تَتَبَرَّرَ فِي كَلاَمِكَ، وَتَغْلِبَ مَتَى حُوكِمْتَ».

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

وَلكِنْ إِنْ كَانَ إِثْمُنَا يُبَيِّنُ بِرَّ اللهِ، فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ أَلَعَلَّ اللهَ الَّذِي يَجْلِبُ الْغَضَبَ ظَالِمٌ؟ أَتَكَلَّمُ بِحَسَبِ الإِنْسَانِ.

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

حَاشَا! فَكَيْفَ يَدِينُ اللهُ الْعَالَمَ إِذْ ذَاكَ؟

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

فَإِنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ صِدْقُ اللهِ قَدِ ازْدَادَ بِكَذِبِي لِمَجْدِهِ، فَلِمَاذَا أُدَانُ أَنَا بَعْدُ كَخَاطِئٍ؟

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

أَمَا كَمَا يُفْتَرَى عَلَيْنَا، وَكَمَا يَزْعُمُ قَوْمٌ أَنَّنَا نَقُولُ:«لِنَفْعَلِ السَّيِّآتِ لِكَيْ تَأْتِيَ الْخَيْرَاتُ»؟ الَّذِينَ دَيْنُونَتُهُمْ عَادِلَةٌ.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

فَمَاذَا إِذًا؟ أَنَحْنُ أَفْضَلُ؟ كَّلاَ الْبَتَّةَ! لأَنَّنَا قَدْ شَكَوْنَا أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ وَالْيُونَانِيِّينَ أَجْمَعِينَ تَحْتَ الْخَطِيَّةِ،

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ:«أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَارٌّ وَلاَ وَاحِدٌ.

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

لَيْسَ مَنْ يَفْهَمُ. لَيْسَ مَنْ يَطْلُبُ اللهَ.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

الْجَمِيعُ زَاغُوا وَفَسَدُوا مَعًا. لَيْسَ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ صَلاَحًا لَيْسَ وَلاَ وَاحِدٌ.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

حَنْجَرَتُهُمْ قَبْرٌ مَفْتُوحٌ. بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ قَدْ مَكَرُوا. سِمُّ الأَصْلاَلِ تَحْتَ شِفَاهِهِمْ.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

وَفَمُهُمْ مَمْلُوءٌ لَعْنَةً وَمَرَارَةً.

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

أَرْجُلُهُمْ سَرِيعَةٌ إِلَى سَفْكِ الدَّمِ.

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

فِي طُرُقِهِمِ اغْتِصَابٌ وَسُحْقٌ.

And the way of peace have they not known:

وَطَرِيقُ السَّلاَمِ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

لَيْسَ خَوْفُ اللهِ قُدَّامَ عُيُونِهِمْ».

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

وَنَحْنُ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ كُلَّ مَا يَقُولُهُ النَّامُوسُ فَهُوَ يُكَلِّمُ بِهِ الَّذِينَ فِي النَّامُوسِ، لِكَيْ يَسْتَدَّ كُلُّ فَمٍ، وَيَصِيرَ كُلُّ الْعَالَمِ تَحْتَ قِصَاصٍ مِنَ اللهِ.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

لأَنَّهُ بِأَعْمَالِ النَّامُوسِ كُلُّ ذِي جَسَدٍ لاَ يَتَبَرَّرُ أَمَامَهُ. لأَنَّ بِالنَّامُوسِ مَعْرِفَةَ الْخَطِيَّةِ.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

وَأَمَّا الآنَ فَقَدْ ظَهَرَ بِرُّ اللهِ بِدُونِ النَّامُوسِ، مَشْهُودًا لَهُ مِنَ النَّامُوسِ وَالأَنْبِيَاءِ،

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

بِرُّ اللهِ بِالإِيمَانِ بِيَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ، إِلَى كُلِّ وَعَلَى كُلِّ الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ. لأَنَّهُ لاَ فَرْقَ.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

إِذِ الْجَمِيعُ أَخْطَأُوا وَأَعْوَزَهُمْ مَجْدُ اللهِ،

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

مُتَبَرِّرِينَ مَجَّانًا بِنِعْمَتِهِ بِالْفِدَاءِ الَّذِي بِيَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ،

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

الَّذِي قَدَّمَهُ اللهُ كَفَّارَةً بِالإِيمَانِ بِدَمِهِ، لإِظْهَارِ بِرِّهِ، مِنْ أَجْلِ الصَّفْحِ عَنِ الْخَطَايَا السَّالِفَةِ بِإِمْهَالِ اللهِ.

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

لإِظْهَارِ بِرِّهِ فِي الزَّمَانِ الْحَاضِرِ، لِيَكُونَ بَارًّا وَيُبَرِّرَ مَنْ هُوَ مِنَ الإِيمَانِ بِيَسُوعَ.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

فَأَيْنَ الافْتِخَارُ؟ قَدِ انْتَفَى. بِأَيِّ نَامُوسٍ؟ أَبِنَامُوسِ الأَعْمَالِ؟ كَّلاَّ. بَلْ بِنَامُوسِ الإِيمَانِ.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

إِذًا نَحْسِبُ أَنَّ الإِنْسَانَ يَتَبَرَّرُ بِالإِيمَانِ بِدُونِ أَعْمَالِ النَّامُوسِ.

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

أَمِ اللهُ لِلْيَهُودِ فَقَطْ؟ أَلَيْسَ لِلأُمَمِ أَيْضًا؟ بَلَى، لِلأُمَمِ أَيْضًا

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

لأَنَّ اللهَ وَاحِدٌ، هُوَ الَّذِي سَيُبَرِّرُ الْخِتَانَ بِالإِيمَانِ وَالْغُرْلَةَ بِالإِيمَانِ.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

أَفَنُبْطِلُ النَّامُوسَ بِالإِيمَانِ؟ حَاشَا! بَلْ نُثَبِّتُ النَّامُوسَ.