Romans 3 Darby Translation

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1 What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

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

2 Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

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

3 For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

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

4 Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

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 our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

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

6 Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

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

7 For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also 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 and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

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 better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under 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 according as it is written, There is not a righteous [man], not even one;

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

11 there is not the [man] that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

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

12 All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is 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 an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [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 cursing and bitterness;

14 Cuya boca está llena de maledicencia y de amargura;

15 swift their feet to shed blood;

15 Sus pies son ligeros á derramar sangre;

16 ruin and misery [are] in their ways,

16 Quebrantamiento y desventura hay en sus caminos;

17 and way of peace they have not known:

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 know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to 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 Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] 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 law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to 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 righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

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 sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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

24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

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

25 whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

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 for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of 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 Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by 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 we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

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

29 Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:

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

30 since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

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 make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.

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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