Romans 3:1-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Paul Answers an Objection

3 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ²Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted^(A) with the spoken words of God.^(B) ³What then? If some did not believe,^(C) will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness? ⁴Absolutely not!^(D) God must be true, even if everyone is a liar,^(E) as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.^(F)^[a]

⁵But if our unrighteousness highlights^[b] God’s righteousness,^(G) what are we to say?^(H) I use a human argument:^[c]^(I) Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? ⁶Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?^(J) ⁷But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?^(K) ⁸And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”?^(L) Their condemnation is deserved!