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, f