Romans 3:1–20

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

³For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

⁴But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

⁶(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

⁸And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

¹⁰As it is written: There is not any man just.

¹¹There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

¹²All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵Their feet swift to shed blood:

¹⁶Destruction and misery in their ways:

¹⁷And the way of peace they have not known.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

²⁰Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.