Romans 3:4-19

⁴By no means! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, just as it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and You may prevail when You are judged.”

⁵But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Surely God, the One inflicting wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I speak as a man.)

⁶By no means! For otherwise how shall God judge the world?

⁷For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come”?—just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just.

⁹What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

¹⁰Just as it is written: “There is none righteous, no not one.

¹¹There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

¹²All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one.

¹³Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived; the poison of asps is under their lips;

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶Ruin and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷and the way of peace they did not know.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

¹⁹Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be held accountable to God.