✧What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? ✧2Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. ✧3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God? ✧4God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. ✧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 are 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 better 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;