1 What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them. 3 For what if some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief have made the truth of God without effect?
4 No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.
5 And if our iniquity commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Shall for this reason God be unjust who sends punishment? (I speak as a man.) 6 No, in no wise: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why even so am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom is just.