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.”
19. And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.
20. Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.
21. But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets,
22. and the righteousness of Elohim is through belief in יהושע Messiah to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference,