(5)But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man.) (6)Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world? (7)For if the truth of God through my lie, abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? (8)And why not, as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say: Let us do evil, that good may come? Whose judgment is just. (9)What then? Are we better? No, in no wise; for we before charged, that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. (10)As it is written: There is none righteous, no, no one; (11)there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. (12)They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one. (13)Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; (14)whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (15)Their feet are swift to shed blood. (16)Destruction and misery are in their ways; (17)and the way of peace they have not known. (18)There is no fear of God before their eyes. (19)Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (20)Because by works of law no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin. (21)But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (22)a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe; (for there is no difference; (23)for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) (24)being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; (25)whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith by his blood, for the exhibition of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins before committed in the forbearance of God; (26)for the exhibition of his righteousness in this present time, that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus. (27)Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. (28)Therefore we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. Is he the God of Jews only? (29)Is he not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also; (30)seeing that God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith. (31)Do we then make void law through the faith? Far be it! Yea, we establish law. IV.