Romans 3:1-14 ▼

1 What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of the circumcision?

2 Much in every way. For first indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

3 For what If some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

4 Never may it be! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it has been written: “So that You may be justified in Your words, and you will be victorious in Your judging.”

5 But if our unrighteousness proves God’s righteousness, what will we say? God, inflicting the wrath, is unrighteous? I speak according to man.

6 Never may it be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7 But if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 And is it not, as we are slandered and as some affirm us to say, “Let us do evil so that the good may come”? Their judgment is just.

9 What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we charged before both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin.

10 As it has been written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;

11 there is no one understanding; there is no one seeking out God.

12 All turned away; together they became worthless; there is none who is doing kindness, there is not even one.”

13 “Their throat is a grave having been opened; they keep practicing deceit with their tongues;” “the poison of vipers is under their lips,”

14 “of whom the mouth is full of cursing and of bitterness;”