Romans 3:4-19

⁴In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

⁵But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

⁶In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

⁷But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

⁸Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

⁹What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

¹⁰As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

¹¹Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

¹²They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

¹³Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

¹⁵Their feet are quick in running after blood;

¹⁶Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

¹⁷And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: