The verses say
25 God has offered him to us as a means of reconciliation, in virtue of faith, ransoming us with his blood. Thus God has vindicated his own holiness, shewing us why he overlooked our former sins
26 in the days of his forbearance; and he has also vindicated the holiness of Jesus Christ, here and now, as one who is himself holy, and imparts holiness to those who take their stand upon faith in him.✻
✻ The Greek text here can be, and commonly is, translated thus: ‘he has also vindicated his (God’s) holiness, here and now, as one who is himself holy, and imparts holiness to those who take their stand upon faith in Jesus Christ’. The other interpretation is, apparently, that of the Latin translators.
Green's translation of
Ro 3:25-26, in the
Textus Receptus Greek text (exceptionally corrupt in Rev):
25) Jesus whom God set forth a propitiation through faith, by the of him blood, for a
display of the righteousness of him,
through the passing by of the that
before had occurred sins,
26) in the forbearance of God for the
display of the righteousness of him in the present time, for
the being (of) him just
and justifying the (one) of faith of Jesus.
Marshall's translation of
Ro 3:25-26 in the
Nestle's Greek text:
25) whom set forth God a propitiation through faith by the of him blood, for a
showing forth of the righteousness of him
because of the sins
previously occurred
26) in the forbearance of God, for the
showing forth of the righteousness of him in the present time, for the
to be him (that he should be)
just and justifying the (one) of faith of (in) Jesus.
NIV translation of
Ro 3:25-26 from the
best current printed texts of the Greek NT:
25) God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to
demonstrate his justice,
because in his forbearance he had left the sins
committed beforehand unpunished--
26) he did it to
demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as
to be just
and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
My exposition of
Ro 3:25-26:
Christ's sacrifice was to:
1) demonstrate he is
just, in two regards:
----a) for the sins committed
beforehand (by the OT saints) that in his forbearance he had left
unpunished,
----b) for the sins committed at the
present time, (in both cases) so as to be
just, and
2) to be the
justifier, to be the one who (both)
exacts/requires justice and the one who also
satisfies that justice and declares forensically righteous those who have faith in Jesus.
There is a problem in your text with the following not being in the text:
showing us why,
vindicated the holiness of Jesus Christ,
who is himself holy and imparts holiness.