3:1
What advantage,
then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?
2 Much in every way! First of all, they
have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3 What if some did not have faith? Will
their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?
4 Not at all!
Let God be true, and every
man a liar. As it is written [in
Psalm 51:4]: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and
prevail when you judge."
5 But if our
unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say?
That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could
God judge the world?
7 Someone might argue, "If my
falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
8 Why not say-- as we are being
slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say-- "Let us do
evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.
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