7. For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
8. And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)
9. What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
10. just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,
11. there is no one who understands,there is no one who seeks God.
12. All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”
13. “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”
14. “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15. “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16. ruin and misery are in their paths,