1. What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2. Much, in every respect. [For] in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.
3. What if some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity of God?
4. Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written:“That you may be justified in your words,and conquer when you are judged.”
5. But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?
6. Of course not! For how else is God to judge the world?