Romans 3

3 ¹So wetin di Jew get pass? Abi wetin be di value of circumcision? ²Plenty for every way. Di first one be say, our Papa put im very words for dia hand. ³So wetin? If some no dey faithful, dia no-faithfulness go spoil di faithfulness of our Papa? ⁴No! Make our Papa dey true, even if every person na liar. As dem write am say: “You dey proven right for your words, and you dey win when dem judge you.”

⁵But if our bad-bad way dey make our Papa im correct-and-holy way shine more, wetin we go talk? Our Papa no dey do correct as e bring vex come us? (Na human talk I dey talk.). ⁶E no fit be so at all! If e be like dat, how our Papa go take judge di world? ⁷But if my lie dey make di truth of our Papa overflow reach im glory, why dem still dey judge me as sinner? ⁸Why we no go just talk am, as some people dey lie say na wetin we dey talk, “Make we do evil so dat good fit come”? Di judgment wey dem go get, dem deserve am.

Nobody Dey Correct-And-Holy

⁹So wetin? We better pass? No be so at all—we don already talk am say Jews and Greeks, all of dem dey under di grip of sin, ¹⁰as dem write am say: “Nobody dey correct-and-holy, no even one; ¹¹nobody dey understand; nobody dey find our Papa. ¹²Everybody don turn comot; together dem don become useless; nobody dey do good, no even one. ¹³Dia throat na grave wey open; dem dey use dia tongue take deceive people.” “Di poison of snake dey under dia lips. ¹⁴Dia mouth full of curse and bitter-bitter word. ¹⁵Dia leg dey quick to shed blood; ¹⁶destruction and suffer-suffer dey mark dia road, ¹⁷and di way of peace dem never know. ¹⁸No fear of our Papa dey for dia eyes.”

¹⁹We know say wetin di law talk, e concern dose wey dey under am, so dat every mouth go keep quiet and di whole world go stand answer for our Papa front. ²⁰Nobody go correct for im front through di work of di law; na di law dey make person know sin.

Dem Make Us Correct Through Faith For Jesus

²¹But now, apart from di law, dem don show di correct-and-holy way of our Papa, wey di Law and di Prophets dey testify about. ²²Dis correct-and-holy way of our Papa dey come through faith for Jesus Christ, to everybody wey believe, because no difference dey, ²³because everybody don sin and dem no reach di glory of our Papa, ²⁴and na free e make dem correct through im grace, through di redemption wey dey for Christ Jesus. ²⁵Our Papa put am forward as di sacrifice wey dey pay for sin, through faith for im blood, to show im correct-and-holy way, because for im patience e don pass over di sins wey dem do before, ²⁶to show im correct-and-holy way now, so dat e go dey just and e go make anybody wey trust for Jesus correct.

²⁷So where boasting dey? Dem don comot am. Through wetin kind law? Of work? No—na through di law of faith. ²⁸Because we still dey talk am say na faith dey make person correct, apart from di work of di law. ²⁹Abi our Papa na di Papa of Jews only? E no be di Papa of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, ³⁰because our Papa na one, e go make dose wey circumcise correct through faith and dose wey no circumcise correct through faith.

³¹We dey cancel di law through dis faith? E no fit be so at all—we dey confirm di law.