As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."{Psalm 51:4} 003:005 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 003:006 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? 003:007 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 003:008 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned. 003:009 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 003:010 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. 003:011 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 003:012 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20} 003:013 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} 003:014 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} 003:015 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 003:017 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} 003:018 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1} 003:019 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 003:020 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 003:021 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; 003:022 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, 003:023 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 003:024 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 003:025 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 003:026 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. 003:027 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 003:028 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart