5. But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
6. Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
7. For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8. And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
9. What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged 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 who understands;There is none who seeks after God.
12. They have all turned aside;They have together become unprofitable;There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13. “Their throat is an open tomb;With their tongues they have practiced 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;