6. Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?
7. For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8. and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.
9. What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
10. according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;
11. there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
12. All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:
13. their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips: