1. Therefore, what is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the use of circumcision?
2. Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3. What is the result if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?
4. May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, “In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged.”
5. But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)
6. May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7. But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?
8. And why not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, in order that good may come of it? Their condemnation is just!