羅馬書 第 3 章

¹這樣說來，猶太人有甚麼長處？割禮有甚麼益處呢？What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

²凡事大有好處：第一是神的聖言交託他們。Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

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

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。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.

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

⁶斷乎不是！若是這樣，神怎能審判世界呢？God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

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

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。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.

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。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;

¹⁰就如經上所記：沒有義人，連一個也沒有。As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹沒有明白的；沒有尋求神的；There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹²都是偏離正路，一同變為無用。沒有行善的，連一個也沒有。They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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

¹⁴滿口是咒罵苦毒。Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵殺人流血，他們的腳飛跑，Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁶所經過的路便行殘害暴虐的事。Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁷平安的路，他們未曾知道；And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸他們眼中不怕神。There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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。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.

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。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.

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

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。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:

²³因為世人都犯了罪，虧缺了神的榮耀；For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴如今卻蒙神的恩典，因基督耶穌的救贖，就白白的稱義。Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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，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;

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

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

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

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

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

³¹這樣，我們因信廢了律法麼？斷乎不是！更是堅固律法。Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.