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¹ What advantage then has the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?² Much in every way: first of all, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.³ What then? If some were without faith, shall their want of faith make of no effect the faithfulness of God?⁴ God forbid: yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar; according to as it is written, That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment.⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)⁶ God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?⁷ But if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?⁸ and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.⁹ What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;¹⁰ as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;¹¹ There is none that understands, There is none that seeks after God;¹² They have all turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; There is none that does good, no, not, so much as one:¹³ Their throat is an open tomb; 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 they have not known:¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:²⁰ because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [comes] the knowledge of sin.²¹ But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;²² even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those that believe; for there is no distinction;²³ for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:²⁵ whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done previously, in the forbearance of God;²⁶ for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that has faith in Jesus.²⁷ Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? No: but by a law of faith.²⁸ For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.²⁹ Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also:³⁰ since there is [only] one God, he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.³¹ Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? God forbid: no, we establish the law.