What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that aunto them were committed bthe oracles of God. 3 For cwhat if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make dthe faith of God without effect? 4 eGod 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. 5 But if our unrighteousness icommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? k(I speak as a man) 6 eGod forbid: for then lhow shall God judge the world? 7 For if mthe truth of God hath more abounded through mmy lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And 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.

9 What 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;