1Then what advantage has the Jew? or what profit is there in circumcision? 2Much in every way: First, because the oracles of God were entrusted to them. 3What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? 4God forbid: let God be true, even if every man is a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your words, and might overcome when you are judged. 5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7But if, through my lie, the truthfulness of God brings him even greater glory; why am I still condemned as a sinner? 8And why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Their condemnation is just. 9What then? are we better than they? No, by no means: for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; 10As it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one: 11There is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks after God. 12They have all left the way, together they have become unprofitable; there is no one who does good, no, not one. 13Their throats are an open grave; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14Their 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 whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be held accountable to God. 20Therefore, by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight: for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been manifested, though it is witnessed to by the law and the prophets; 22This is the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe: for there is no difference: 23For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God has set forth to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood. He did this to declare his righteousness, for in the forbearance of God, he passed over sins of the past; 26To declare at this present time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 27Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. 28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the law. 29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30Since God is one, and he shall justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. 31Do we then make the law void through faith? Not at all: rather, we establish the law.