tter and circumcision art a transgressor of law?
(28)For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh. (29)But he is a Jew, who
is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit
not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

III.

WHAT then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of
circumcision? (2)Much every way; first, indeed, that they were
intrusted with the oracles of God. (3)For what if some did not
believe? Shall their unbelief make void the faithfulness of God?
(4)Far be it! Yea, let God be true and every man a liar; as it is
written:

That thou mayest be justified in thy words,
And mayest overcome when thou art judged.

(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, an