6. By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
7. But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
8. And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
9. What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,
10. as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
11. no one understands;no one seeks for God.
12. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;no one does good,not even one.”
13. “Their throat is an open grave;they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14. “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15. “Their feet are swift to shed blood;