CHAP. 3 : 1—8.

^What advantage then hath the Jew 1 or what profit zs there of circum- cision ] 2]\/[^p}^ every way : chiefly, because that unto them were com- mitted the oracles of God. ^For what if some did not believe ? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? ^God forbid : yea, let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written. That thou might- est be justified in tby sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. ^But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say 1 Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance ? (I speak as a man) <'God forbid : for then how shall God judge the world 1 Wot if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory ; why yet am I also judged as a sinner 1 ^And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil that good may come "J whose damnation is just.