²⁸ For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

3 What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

² Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

³ For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.

⁴ But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵ But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

⁶ (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

⁷ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

⁸ And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.

⁹ What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

¹⁰ As it is written: There is not any man just.

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹² All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵ Their feet swift to shed blood:

¹⁶ Destruction and misery in their ways:

¹⁷ And the way of peace they have not known:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.