A. 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

B. 3 For what if some did not believe?  shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  4 God forbid; yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;

C. as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

B’. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?  Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)  6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,)  Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

A’. 9 What then? are we better than they?  No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written,

(Psalm 53:1-3)
There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become unprofitable;
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

(Psalm 5:9)
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre;
with their tongues they have used deceit;

(Psalm 140:3)
the poison of asps is under their lips:

(Psalm 10:7)
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

(Isaiah 57:7-8)
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:

(Psalm 36:1)
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.