4. But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
5. But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
6. (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?
7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
8. And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.
9. What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
10. As it is written: There is not any man just.
11. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12. All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.
13. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.