Answers to Objections. 1^* What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2Much, in every respect. [For] in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.^a 3What if some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity of God?^b 4Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar,^* as it is written:

“That you may be justified in your words,

and conquer when you are judged.”^c

5But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?^d 6Of course not! For how else is God to judge the world? 7But if God’s truth redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8And why not say—as we are accused and as some claim we say—that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve.^e