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.)