Romans 3:1-18 ▼

1 Then what more belongs to the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

2 Much every way. For indeed, in the first place, the oracles of God were committed unto them.

3 For what if some did not believe? whether will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

4 it could not be so: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as indeed it has been written, In order that you may be justified in your words, and shall prevail, in your judgment.

5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust administering wrath? I speak according to a man.

6 It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

7 And if the truth of God through my falsehood abounded unto His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

8 are we not indeed thus traduced, and as some say we speak, that, Let us do evil in order that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

9 Then what? are we the better? By no means: for we have proven already that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

10 as has been written, There is no one good, not one:

11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;

12 all have gone away, they have all together become unprofitable; there is no one who is doing good, there is not one.

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 Whose feet are swift to shed blood:

16 destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 and they have not known the way of peace.

18 The fear of God is not before their eyes.