Romans 3:1-20

1Then what is the advantage of being Jewish? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

2Much in every way. First of all, they were entrusted with the sayings of God.

3So what if some did not trust? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

4May it never be! Let God be true even if every man is a liar, as it is written, “that You may be righteous in Your words and prevail when You are judged.”

5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous to inflict wrath, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

6May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7But if by my lie the truth of God abounds to His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

8And why not say, “Let us do evil, so that good may come” — just as we are being slandered and as some claim that we say. Their condemnation is deserved!

9What then? Are we better than they? No, not at all. For we have already made the case that all—both Jewish and Greek people—are under sin.

10As it is written, “There is no one righteous—no, not one.

11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks after God.

12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless. There is no one who does good—no, not even one!

13Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.

14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16Ruin and misery are in their paths,

17and the way of shalom they have not known.

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

19Now we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those within the Torah, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become accountable to God.

20For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.