God Remains Faithful
1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?+ 2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.+ 3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?+ 4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.+ 5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)+ 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?+ 7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my 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,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.+There Is No One Righteous
Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17
9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;+ 10As it is written, There 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 become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.+ 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:+ 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:+ 15Their feet are swift to shed blood:+ 16Destruction and misery are in their ways:+ 17And the way of peace have they not known:+ 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.+ 19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.+ 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.+