Romans 3

¹Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

¹這樣說來，猶太人有甚麼長處？割禮有甚麼益處呢？

²Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

²凡事大有好處：第一是神的聖言交託他們。

³What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

³即便有不信的，這有何妨呢？難道他們的不信就廢掉神的信麼？

⁴May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man [be found] a liar, as it is written, 'THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED.'

⁴斷乎不能！不如說，神是真實的，人都是虛謊的。如經上所記：你責備人的時候，顯為公義；被人議論的時候，可以得勝。

⁵But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

⁵我且照著人的常話說，我們的不義若顯出神的義來，我們可以怎麼說呢？神降怒，是他不義麼？

⁶May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

⁶斷乎不是！若是這樣，神怎能審判世界呢？

⁷But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

⁷若神的真實，因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？

⁸And why not [say] (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), 'Let us do evil that good may come '? Their condemnation is just.

⁸為甚麼不說，我們可以作惡以成善呢？這是毀謗我們的人說我們有這話。這等人定罪是該當的。

⁹What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

⁹這卻怎麼樣呢？我們比他們強麼？決不是的！因我們已經證明，猶太人和希利尼人都在罪惡之下。

¹⁰as it is written, 'THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;

¹⁰就如經上所記：沒有義人，連一個也沒有。

¹¹THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;

¹¹沒有明白的；沒有尋求神的；

¹²ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.'

¹²都是偏離正路，一同變為無用。沒有行善的，連一個也沒有。

¹³'THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,' 'THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS';

¹³他們的喉嚨是敞開的墳墓；他們用舌頭弄詭詐，嘴唇裡有虺蛇的毒氣，

¹⁴'WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS';

¹⁴滿口是咒罵苦毒。

¹⁵'THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

¹⁵殺人流血，他們的腳飛跑，

¹⁶DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,

¹⁶所經過的路便行殘害暴虐的事。

¹⁷AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN.'

¹⁷平安的路，他們未曾知道；

¹⁸'THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES.'

¹⁸他們眼中不怕神。

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

¹⁹我們曉得律法上的話都是對律法以下之人說的，好塞住各人的口，叫普世的人都伏在神審判之下。

²⁰because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law [comes] the knowledge of sin.

²⁰所以凡有血氣的，沒有一個因行律法能在神面前稱義，因為律法本是叫人知罪。

²¹But now apart from the Law [the] righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

²¹但如今，神的義在律法以外已經顯明出來，有律法和先知為證：

²²even [the] righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

²²就是神的義，因信耶穌基督加給一切相信的人，並沒有分別。

²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

²³因為世人都犯了罪，虧缺了神的榮耀；

²⁴being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

²⁴如今卻蒙神的恩典，因基督耶穌的救贖，就白白的稱義。

²⁵whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. [This was] to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

²⁵神設立耶穌作挽回祭，是憑著耶穌的血，藉著人的信，要顯明神的義；因為他用忍耐的心寬容人先時所犯的罪，

²⁶for the demonstration, [I say], of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

²⁶好在今時顯明他的義，使人知道他自己為義，也稱信耶穌的人為義。

²⁷Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

²⁷既是這樣，那裡能誇口呢？沒有可誇的了。用何法沒有的呢？是用立功之法麼？不是，乃用信主之法。

²⁸For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

²⁸所以（有古卷：因為）我們看定了：人稱義是因著信，不在乎遵行律法。

²⁹Or is God [the God] of Jews only? Is He not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

²⁹難道神只作猶太人的神麼？不也是作外邦人的神麼？是的，也作外邦人的神。

³⁰since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

³⁰神既是一位，他就要因信稱那受割禮的為義，也要因信稱那未受割禮的為義。

³¹Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

³¹這樣，我們因信廢了律法麼？斷乎不是！更是堅固律法。