Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 69:19-28, Romans 3:21-31 - New King James Version (2024)

¹⁹You know ^(A)my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
²⁰Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of ^[a]heaviness;
^(B)I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for ^(C)comforters, but I found none.
²¹They also gave me gall for my food,
^(D)And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

^22(E)Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
^23(F)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake continually.
^24(G)Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
^25(H)Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.
²⁶For they persecute the ones ^(I)You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
^27(J)Add iniquity to their iniquity,
^(K)And let them not come into Your righteousness.
²⁸Let them ^(L)be blotted out of the book of the living,
^(M)And not be written with the righteous.

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God’s Righteousness Through Faith

²¹But now ^(A)the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, ^(B)being witnessed by the Law ^(C)and the Prophets, ²²even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all ^[a]and on all who believe. For ^(D)there is no difference; ²³for ^(E)all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴being justified ^[b]freely ^(F)by His grace ^(G)through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God set forth ^(H)as a ^[c]propitiation ^(I)by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over ^(J)the sins that were previously committed, ²⁶to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Boasting Excluded

^27(K)Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. ²⁸Therefore we conclude ^(L)that a man is ^[d]justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. ²⁹Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, ³⁰since ^(M)there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

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