ROMANS 3:5-14

⁵But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸and why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

⁹What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: