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What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
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Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.
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For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
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Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged."
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But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
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Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
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For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
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And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
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What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
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As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
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There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.
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They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."
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"Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips";
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"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."