Romans 3:1-12 ▼

1 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

2 Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God.

3 What then? If some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?

4 Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written: That you may be justified in your words and triumph when you judge.

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

6 Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7 But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

8 And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

9 What then? Are we any better off? Not at all! For we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.

11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

12 All have turned away; all alike have become worthless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.