[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. [21] But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all them that believe: for no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.