1. What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2. Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them.
3. For what if some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief have made the truth of God without effect?
4. No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.
5. And if our iniquity commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Shall for this reason God be unjust who sends punishment? (I speak as a man.)
6. No, in no wise: for then how shall God judge the world?
7. For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why even so am I also judged as a sinner?
8. And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom is just.
9. What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin;
10. as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;
11. there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.
12. They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
13. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
14. whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;