1. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
2. Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
3. For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
4. God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
5. But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
6. God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7. But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8. and why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
9. What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
10. as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
11. There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;