003:007 If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness
more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged
all the same as a sinner?
003:008 And why should we not say--for so they wickedly misrepresent us,
and so some charge us with arguing--"Let us do evil that good
may come"? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just.
003:009 What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they?
Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews
and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.
003:010 Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.
003:011 There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent
seeker after God.
003:012 All have turned aside from the right path; they have every
one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what
is right--no, not so much as one."
003:013 "Their throats resemble an opened grave; with their tongues
they have been talking deceitfully." "The venom of vipers
lies hidden behind their lips."