3. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
4. God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
5. But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6. God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7. For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8. And not rather, (as we are 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 better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proved both 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 understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15. Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16. Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17. And the way of peace have they not known:
18. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19. Now we know that whatsoever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.