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¹ What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision? ² much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God. ³ for what if some betrayed their trust? shall their unfaithfulness render ⁴ the faithfulness of God of no effect? by no means; yea, let God be acknowledged to be true, tho' men should be all deceivers; as it is written, " that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged." ⁵ but say you, "if our unfaithfulness displays the veracity of God, what shall we say? is it not injustice in God to inflict punishment?" ⁶ not at all: for then how could God judge the world? ⁷ "but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner? ⁸ and why may we not do evil, that good may come?" which is slanderously reported to be our maxim, by some, whose condemnation is just. ⁹ "how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin. ¹⁰ as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one: ¹¹ there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹² they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. ¹³ their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷ and the way of peace have they not known. ¹⁸ there is no fear of God before their eyes."

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God. ²⁰ for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin. ²¹ but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law: ²² that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction: ²³ for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory: ²⁴ being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ: ²⁵ whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest, ²⁶ I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus. ²⁷ what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith. ²⁸ for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites. ²⁹ is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too; ³⁰ since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith. ³¹ do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.