Paul Answers an Objection

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

That you may be justified in your words
and triumph when you judge.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 Ps 51:4

Everyone is a Sinner

What advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision? There are all kinds of advantages! First of all, the Jews[a] have been entrusted with the utterances of God. What if some of the Jews[b] were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God’s faithfulness, can it? Of course not! God is true, even if everyone else is a liar. As it is written,

“You are right when you speak,[c]
    and win your case when you go into court.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:2 Lit. they
  2. Romans 3:3 Lit. of them
  3. Romans 3:4 Lit. are justified in your words
  4. Romans 3:4 Cf. Ps 51:4