---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Romans from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
  - romans
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 3
verse_count: 31
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Epistle of Paul to the Romans, chap. 3, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1867 scan, cross-checked against a second scan (holyscriptures00smit) and the page images; see docs/jst-romans-1867-decisions.md in the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Romans 3

*The Jews' advantage — No flesh is justified by the law.*

**1** What advantage then hath the Jew over the Gentile? or what profit of circumcision, who is not a Jew from the heart?
**2** But he who is a Jew from the heart, I say hath much every way; chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
**3** For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
**4** 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** But if we remain in our unrighteousness and commend the righteousness of God, how dare we say, God is unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man who fears God,)
**6** God forbid; for then how shall God judge the world?
**7** For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, (as it is called of the Jews,) unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? and not received? Because we are slanderously reported;
**8** And some affirm that we say, (whose damnation is just,) Let us do evil that good may come. But this is false.
**9** If not so; what then are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have proved before, that Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.
**10** As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
**11** There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
**12** They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
**13** Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;
**14** Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
**15** Their feet are swift to shed blood;
**16** Destruction and misery are in their ways;
**17** And the way of peace have they not known;
**18** There is no fear of God before their eyes.
**19** 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** For by the law is the knowledge of sin; therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight.
**21** But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
**22** 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** For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
**24** Therefore being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is only in Christ Jesus;
**25** Whom God has 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** To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
**27** Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
**28** Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith alone without the deeds of the law.
**29** Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also;
**30** Seeing that God will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
**31** Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.