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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Romans 3
³ What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?
⁴ May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "That You may be justified in Your words, And prevail when You are judged."
⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)
⁶ May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
⁷ But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
⁸ And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.
⁹ What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
¹⁰ as it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one;
¹¹ There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God;
¹² All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one."
¹³ "Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving," "The poison of asps is under their lips";