Romans 3:1-8

Christian Standard Bible

Paul Answers an Objection

3 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ² Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted^(A) with the very words of God.^{(B) 3} What then? If some were unfaithful,^(C) will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? ⁴ Absolutely not!^(D) Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar,^(E) as it is written:

⁵ But if our unrighteousness highlights^[b] God’s righteousness,^(G) what are we to say?^(H) I am using a human argument:^[c](I) Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? ⁶ Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?^{(J) 7} But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?^{(K) 8} And 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!