And why not say (just as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “(A)Let’s do evil that good may come of it”? [a]Their condemnation is deserved.

What then? [b](B)Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both (C)Jews and (D)Greeks are (E)all under sin; 10 as it is written:

(F)There is no righteous person, not even one;

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:8 Lit Whose
  2. Romans 3:9 Or Are we worse

Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(A) Their condemnation is just!

No One Is Righteous

What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?(B) Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.(C) 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;

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