9What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
9What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
7 Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
8 Why not say--as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.
9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
3:9What 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;
3:9What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
3:9What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
3:9What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
3:9What 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;
3:9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
3:9What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
3:9What 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;