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!
9. What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
10. just as it is written, “There is no one righteous, not even one;
11. there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
12. All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; There is no one who practices kindness; there is not even one.
13. Their throat is an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is under their lips,