God only is essentially true. All men in their own capacity are liable to lies and errors: nevertheless God, who is the truth, will make good his promise of keeping his church in all truth. See St. John 16.13. 3:5. But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? 3:6. (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world? 3:7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? 3:8. 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. 3:9. What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 3:10. As it is written: There is not any man just. There is not any man just, viz. . .by virtue either of the law of nature, or of the law of Moses; but only by faith and grace. 3:11. There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God. 3:12. 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. 3:13. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. 3:14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 3:15. Their feet swift to shed blood: 3:16. Destruction and misery in their ways: 3:17. And the way of peace they have not known. 3:18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. 3:19. Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. 3:20. Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. 3:21. But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. 3:22. Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction. 3:23. For all have sinned and do need the glory of God. 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 3:25. Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, 3:26. Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ 3:27. Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 3:28. For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.