3. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief nullify the trustworthiness of Elohim?
4. Let it not be! But let Elohim be true, and every man a liar, as it has been written, “That You should be declared right in Your words, and prevail in Your judging.”
5. But if our unrighteousness establishes the righteousness of Elohim, what shall we say? Is Elohim unrighteous who is inflicting wrath? I speak as a man.
6. Let it not be! Otherwise how shall Elohim judge the world?
7. For if the truth of Elohim has increased through my lie, to His esteem, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8. And why not say, “Let us do evil so that the good might come”? – as we are wrongly accused and as some claim that we say. Their judgment is in the right.
9. What then? Are we better than they? Not at all, for we have previously accused both Yehuḏim and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10. As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!
11. “There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking Elohim.
12. “They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13. “Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
14. “Whose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.”
15. “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16. ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
17. and the way of peace they have not known.”
18. “There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.”