Romans 3:1–20

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that ^aunto them were committed ^bthe oracles of God. ³For ^cwhat if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make ^dthe faith of God without effect? ^4eGod forbid: yea, let ^fGod be true, but ^gevery man a liar; as it is written, ^hThat thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. ⁵But if our unrighteousness ⁱcommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? ^k(I speak as a man) ^6eGod forbid: for then ^lhow shall God judge the world? ⁷For if ^mthe truth of God hath more abounded through ^mmy lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) ⁿLet us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? ^oare we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before ^†proved both ^pJews and ^qGentiles, that ^rthey are all under sin; ¹⁰As it is written, ^sThere is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together ^tbecome unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ^13uTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; ^xthe poison of asps is under their lips: ^14yWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ^15zaTheir feet are swift to shed blood: ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known: ^18bThere is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever ^cthe law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that ^devery mouth may be stopped, and ^eall the world may become ^||guilty before God. ^20fTherefore ^gby the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for ^hby the law is the knowledge of sin.