1. So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2. Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.
3. What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?
4. Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:That You may be justified in Your wordsand triumph when You judge.
5. But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?
6. Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7. But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8. And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!
9. What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,