Romans · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Romans 3 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Entonces, ¿qué ventaja tiene el judío? ¿O de qué sirve la circuncisión?
1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 Mucho, en todos los sentidos. Primero, porque a los judíos se les confiaron las palabras de Dios.
2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
3 ¿Y qué si algunos no creyeron? ¿Acaso su falta de fe anulará la fidelidad de Dios?
3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
4 De ninguna manera. Sea Dios veraz, aunque todo hombre sea mentiroso, como está escrito: Para que seas reconocido justo en tus palabras, y venzas cuando seas juzgado.
4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
5 Pero si nuestra injusticia hace resaltar la justicia de Dios, ¿qué diremos? ¿Será injusto Dios al castigar? Hablo como hombre.
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
6 De ninguna manera. Si Dios fuera injusto, ¿cómo juzgaría al mundo?
6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
7 Pero si por mi mentira la verdad de Dios abunda para su gloria, ¿por qué todavía soy juzgado como pecador?
7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 ¿Y por qué no decir: Hagamos el mal para que venga el bien? Algunos nos calumnian diciendo que enseñamos eso. La condenación de tales personas es justa.
8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
9 Entonces, ¿somos mejores nosotros? De ninguna manera. Ya hemos acusado a judíos y a griegos de que todos están bajo pecado.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10 Como está escrito: No hay justo, ni siquiera uno.
10 As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
11 No hay quien entienda. No hay quien busque a Dios.
11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
12 Todos se desviaron; todos se hicieron inútiles. No hay quien haga lo bueno, ni siquiera uno.
12 They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
13 Su garganta es un sepulcro abierto; con sus lenguas engañan. Veneno de serpientes hay debajo de sus labios.
13 “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
14 Su boca está llena de maldición y amargura.
14 “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 Sus pies corren para derramar sangre.
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 Destrucción y miseria hay en sus caminos.
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 No conocen el camino de la paz.
17 The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
18 No hay temor de Dios delante de sus ojos.
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Ahora bien, sabemos que todo lo que dice la Ley, lo dice a los que están bajo la Ley, para que toda boca se cierre y todo el mundo quede bajo el juicio de Dios.
19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
20 Porque por las obras de la Ley ningún ser humano será justificado delante de él, ya que por medio de la Ley viene el conocimiento del pecado.
20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 Pero ahora, aparte de la Ley, se ha manifestado la justicia de Dios, de la cual dan testimonio la Ley y los Profetas.
21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
22 Esta justicia de Dios viene por medio de la fe en Jesucristo, para todos y sobre todos los que creen. Porque no hay diferencia:
22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
23 todos han pecado y están privados de la gloria de Dios.
23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
24 Pero son justificados gratuitamente por su gracia, mediante la redención que es en Cristo Jesús.
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 Dios lo presentó como sacrificio de expiación por su sangre, recibido por medio de la fe. Así Dios mostró su justicia, porque en su paciencia había pasado por alto los pecados cometidos antes.
25 whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
26 Lo hizo para mostrar su justicia en este tiempo, a fin de ser justo y, al mismo tiempo, justificar al que tiene fe en Jesús.
26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
27 Entonces, ¿dónde queda el orgullo? Queda excluido. ¿Por qué ley? ¿Por la de las obras? No, sino por la ley de la fe.
27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
28 Concluimos, pues, que una persona es justificada por la fe, aparte de las obras de la Ley.
28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 ¿Acaso Dios es solo Dios de los judíos? ¿No es también Dios de los gentiles? Sí, también de los gentiles.
29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
30 Porque Dios es uno, y él justificará por la fe a los circuncidados, y mediante la fe a los incircuncisos.
30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Entonces, ¿por la fe anulamos la Ley? De ninguna manera. Al contrario, confirmamos la Ley.
31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Romans 2:25–29; Genesis 25:32; Ecclesiastes 6:8; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Hebrews 13:9
- 2 Romans 9:4; Acts 7:38; Psalm 147:19–20; Nehemiah 9:13–14; 1 Corinthians 9:17
- 3 2 Timothy 2:13; Hebrews 4:2; Romans 9:6; Titus 1:1–2; Isaiah 55:11
- 4 Psalm 51:4; Psalm 116:11; Galatians 2:17; Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2
- 5 Romans 6:19; Galatians 3:15; 1 Corinthians 9:8; Romans 2:5; Romans 9:18–20
- 6 Genesis 18:25; Acts 17:31; Job 8:3; Psalm 98:9; Psalm 50:6
- 7 Romans 3:4; Romans 9:19–20; Acts 13:27–29; 2 Kings 8:10–15; Isaiah 10:6–7
- 8 Romans 6:1; Romans 6:15; Romans 5:20; Romans 7:7; 1 Peter 3:16–17
- 9 Galatians 3:22; Romans 6:15; Isaiah 65:5; Romans 11:32; Romans 3:22–23
- 10 Psalm 53:1–3; Psalm 14:1–3; Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8–10; Job 15:14
- 11 Psalm 14:2–4; Psalm 53:2; Titus 3:3; Hosea 4:6; Romans 8:7
- 12 Psalm 14:3; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Isaiah 59:8; Isaiah 64:6; Isaiah 53:6
- 13 Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Matthew 23:27–28; Jeremiah 9:3–5; Psalm 57:4
- 14 Psalm 10:7; Psalm 109:17–18; Psalm 59:12; James 3:10
- 15 Isaiah 59:7–8; Proverbs 1:16; Proverbs 6:18
- 17 Isaiah 59:8; Romans 5:1; Luke 1:79; Matthew 7:14; Isaiah 57:21
- 18 Psalm 36:1; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 16:6; Proverbs 8:13; Revelation 19:5
- 19 Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:22–23; Romans 2:12–18; Romans 3:9; Galatians 5:18
- 20 Galatians 2:16; Acts 13:39; Romans 3:28; Galatians 2:19; Romans 4:15
- 21 Acts 10:43; Jeremiah 33:16; Philippians 3:9; Jeremiah 23:5–6; Galatians 3:8
- 22 Romans 10:12; Galatians 3:28; Romans 8:1; Galatians 2:16; Romans 5:1–11
- 23 Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8–10; Romans 3:9; Galatians 3:22; Romans 11:32
- 24 1 Peter 1:18–19; Titus 3:5–7; Colossians 1:14; Ephesians 1:6–7; Romans 5:9
- 25 Romans 3:23–24; 1 Peter 1:18–20; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 2:2; Colossians 1:20–23
- 26 Deuteronomy 32:4; Romans 4:5; Acts 13:38–39; Romans 3:30; Zephaniah 3:5
- 27 Romans 4:2; Romans 2:23; 1 Corinthians 1:29–31; Galatians 3:22; Romans 2:17
- 28 Titus 3:7; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:24; Galatians 3:8; Romans 3:26
- 29 Colossians 3:11; Zechariah 2:11; Ephesians 3:6; Galatians 3:14; Galatians 3:25–29
- 30 Galatians 3:8; Galatians 3:20; Philippians 3:3; Colossians 2:10–11; Galatians 5:6
- 31 Galatians 2:21; Matthew 5:17; Romans 13:8–10; Romans 10:4; Romans 8:4
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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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).
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)
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.
… 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)
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)
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)