3:1 这样说来，犹太人有什么长处，割礼有什么益处呢。

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

 

3:2 凡事大有好处。第一是神的圣言交托他们。

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

 

3:3 既便有不信的，这有何妨呢。难道他们的不信，就废掉神的信吗。

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

 

3:4 断乎不能。不如说，神是真实的，人都是虚谎的。如经上所记，你责备人的时候，显为公义。被人议论的时候，可以得胜。

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.

 

3:5 我且照着人的常话说，我们的不义，若显出神的义来，我们可以怎吗说呢。神降怒，是他不义吗。

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

 

3:6 断乎不是。若是这样，神怎能审判世界呢。

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

 

3:7 若神的真实，因我的虚谎，越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，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?

 

3:8 为什么不说，我们可以作恶以成善呢，这是毁谤我们的人，说我们有这话。这等人定罪，是该当的。

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.

 

3:9 这却怎吗样呢。我们比他们强吗。决不是的。因为我们已经证明，犹太人和希腊人都在罪恶之下。

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;

 

3:10 就如经上所记，没有义人，连一个也没有。

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

 

3:11 没有明白的，没有寻求神的。

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

 

3:12 都是偏离正路，一同变为无用。没有行善的，连一个也没有。

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

 

3:13 他们的喉咙是敞开的坟墓。他们用舌头弄诡诈。嘴唇里有虺蛇的毒气。

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

 

3:14 满口是咒骂苦毒。

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

 

3:15 杀人流血他们的脚飞跑。

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

 

3:16 所经过的路，便行残害暴虐的事。

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

 

3:17 平安的路，他们未曾知道。

And the way of peace have they not known:

 

3:18 他们眼中不怕神。

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

 

3:19 我们晓得律法上的话，都是对律法以下之人说的，好塞住各人的口，叫普世的人都伏在神的审判之下。

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.

 

3:20 所以凡有血气的没有一个，因行律法，能在神面前称义。因为律法本是叫人知罪。

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.

 

3:21 但如今神的义在律法以外已经显明出来，有律法和先知为证。

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

 

3:22 就是神的义，因信耶稣基督，加给一切相信的人，并没有分别。

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:

 

3:23 因为世人都犯了罪，亏缺了神的荣耀。

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

 

3:24 如今却蒙神的恩典，因基督耶稣的救赎，就白白的称义。

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

 

3:25 神设立耶稣作挽回祭，是凭着耶稣的血，藉着人的信，要显明神的义。因为他用忍耐的心，宽容人先时所犯的罪。

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;

3:26 好在今时显明他的义，使人知道他自己为义，也称信耶稣的人为义。

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

 

3:27 既是这样，那里能夸口呢。没有可夸的了。用何法没有的呢，是用立功之法吗。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.

 

3:28 所以（有古卷作因为）我们看定了，人称义是因着信，不在乎遵行律法。

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

 

3:29 难道神只作犹太人的神吗。也不是作外邦人的神吗。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:

 

3:30 神既是一位他就要因信称那受割礼的为义，也要因信称那未受割礼的为义。

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

 

3:31 这样，我们因信废了律法吗。断乎不是，更是坚固律法。

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.