Romans 3 Bible in Basic English

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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909

1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

1 ¿QUÉ, pues, tiene más el Judío? ¿ó qué aprovecha la circuncisión?

2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

2 Mucho en todas maneras. Lo primero ciertamente, que la palabra de Dios les ha sido confiada.

3 And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

3 ¿Pues qué si algunos de ellos han sido incrédulos? ¿la incredulidad de ellos habrá hecho vana la verdad de Dios?

4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

4 En ninguna manera; antes bien sea Dios verdadero, mas todo hombre mentiroso; como está escrito: Para que seas justificado en tus dichos, y venzas cuando de ti se juzgare.

5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

5 Y si nuestra iniquidad encarece la justicia de Dios, ¿qué diremos? ¿Será injusto Dios que da castigo? (hablo como hombre.)

6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

6 En ninguna manera: de otra suerte ¿cómo juzgaría Dios el mundo?

7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

7 Empero si la verdad de Dios por mi mentira creció á gloria suya, ¿por qué aun así yo soy juzgado como pecador?

8 Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

8 ¿Y por qué no [decir] (como somos blasfemados, y como algunos dicen que nosotros decimos): Hagamos males para que vengan bienes? la condenación de los cuales es justa.

9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

9 ¿Qué pues? ¿Somos mejores que ellos? En ninguna manera: porque ya hemos acusado á Judíos y á Gentiles, que todos están debajo de pecado.

10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

10 Como está escrito: No hay justo, ni aun uno;

11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

11 No hay quien entienda, no hay quien busque á Dios;

12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

12 Todos se apartaron, á una fueron hechos inútiles; no hay quien haga lo bueno, no hay ni aun uno:

13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

13 Sepulcro abierto es su garganta; con sus lenguas tratan engañosamente; veneno de áspides está debajo de sus labios;

14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

14 Cuya boca está llena de maledicencia y de amargura;

15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

15 Sus pies son ligeros á derramar sangre;

16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

16 Quebrantamiento y desventura hay en sus caminos;

17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

17 Y camino de paz no conocieron:

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

18 No hay temor de Dios delante de sus ojos.

19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

19 Empero sabemos que todo lo que la ley dice, á los que están en la ley lo dice, para que toda boca se tape, y que todo el mundo se sujete á Dios:

20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

20 Porque por las obras de la ley ninguna carne se justificará delante de él; porque por la ley [es] el conocimiento del pecado.

21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

21 Mas ahora, sin la ley, la justicia de Dios se ha manifestado, testificada por la ley y por los profetas:

22 That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

22 La justicia de Dios por la fe de Jesucristo, para todos los que creen en él; porque no hay diferencia;

23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;

23 Por cuanto todos pecaron, y están destituídos de la gloria de Dios;

24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

24 Siendo justificados gratuitamente por su gracia, por la redención que es en Cristo Jesús;

25 Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

25 Al cual Dios ha propuesto en propiciación por la fe en su sangre, para manifestación de su justicia, atento á haber pasado por alto, en su paciencia, los pecados pasados,

26 And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

26 Con la mira de manifestar su justicia en este tiempo: para que él sea el justo, y el que justifica al que es de la fe de Jesús.

27 What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

27 ¿Dónde pues está la jactancia? Es excluída. ¿Por cuál ley? ¿de las obras? No; mas por la ley de la fe.

28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

28 Así que, concluímos ser el hombre justificado por fe sin las obras de la ley.

29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

29 ¿Es Dios solamente [Dios] de los Judíos? ¿No es también [Dios] de los Gentiles? Cierto, también de los Gentiles.

30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

30 Porque uno es Dios, el cual justificará por la fe la circuncisión, y por medio de la fe la incircuncisión.

31 Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

31 ¿Luego deshacemos la ley por la fe? En ninguna manera; antes establecemos la ley.

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Commentary 3:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans (Homily VII)
He had accused the Gentiles, he had accused the Jews; it came next in order to mention the righteousness which is by faith.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
Quotes verse 3:11 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book I, Chapters XVIII–XIX)
And, "There is none that understandeth, or that seeketh after God: they have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable," they maintain to be said concerning ignorance of Bythus.
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 3:20 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XIV)
… in many other significations; and among these various usages, a frequent one is to use flesh for man himself, the nature of man taking the part for the whole, as in the words, "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified;" for what does he mean here by "no flesh" but "no man?" And this, indeed, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 3:31 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVI)
God forbid! yea, we establish the law." For since the law was laboring at this, to make man righteous, but had not power, He came and brought in the way of righteousness by faith, and so established that which the law desired: and what the law could not by letters, this He accomplished by faith.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 3:12 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XII)
for the godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none that doeth right among men: and again, They are all gone out of the way, they are together became unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one: and again, Cursing and stealing, and adultery, and murder are poured out upon the land.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

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