[1] What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? [2] Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. [3] For what if some did not believe? their unbelief the faith of God without effect? [4] God forbid: yea, God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in sayings, and mightest overcome when art judged. [5] But if unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) [6] God forbid: for then how God judge the world? [7] if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet I also judged as a sinner? [8] And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation just. [9] What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, all under sin; [10] As it is written, none righteous, no, not one: [11] none that understandeth, none that seeketh after God. [12] all gone out of the way, together become unprofitable; none that doeth good, no, not [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 they not known: [18] no fear of God before their eyes. [19] Now 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. [20] Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.