Rom 3:4, 10-19, 4:3-17, 5:12-14, 9:7, 9, 12-13, 15, 17 | ESV | STEP | By no means ! Let God be true though every one were a liar , as it is written , That you may be justified in your words , and prevail when you are judged .

4 By no means! ^aLet God be true though ^bevery one were a liar, as it is written,

^c“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you ^dare judged.”

Romans 3:10-19

10 as it is written:

^e“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 ^f“Their throat is ^gan open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
^h“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 ⁱ“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 ^j“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and ^kthe way of peace they have not known.”
18 ^l“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever ^mthe law says it speaks to those who are under the law, ⁿso that every mouth may be stopped, and ^othe whole world may be held accountable to God.

Romans 4:3-17

3 For what does the Scripture say? ^p“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” 4 Now ^qto the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but ^rbelieves in ^{▼▼Or but trusts; compare verse 24} him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

7 ^t“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not ^ucount his sin.”
9 Is this blessing then only for ^vthe circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? ^wFor we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. 11 ^xHe received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was ^yto make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

The Promise Realized Through Faith

13 For ^zthe promise to Abraham and his offspring ^aathat he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 ^abFor if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For ^acthe law brings wrath, but ^adwhere there is no law ^aethere is no transgression.

16 That is why it depends on faith, ^afin order that the promise may rest on grace and ^agbe guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, ^ahwho is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, ^ai“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, ^ajwho gives life to the dead and calls into existence ^akthe things that do not exist.

Romans 5:12-14

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

12 Therefore, just as ^alsin came into the world through one man, and ^amdeath through sin, and ^anso death spread to all men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18} because ^apall sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but ^aqsin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not ^arlike the transgression of Adam, ^aswho was a type of ^atthe one who was to come.

Romans 9:7

7 and not all are children of Abraham ^aubecause they are his offspring, but ^av“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

Romans 9:9

9 For this is what the promise said: ^aw“About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Romans 9:12-13

12 she was told, ^ax“The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, ^ay“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Romans 9:15

15 For he says to Moses, ^az“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:17

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ^ba“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”