A  ¹ What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? ² Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

B  ³ For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? ⁴ Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may overcome when You are judged.”

C  ⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) ⁶ Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?

B’  ⁷ For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? ⁸ And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

A’  ⁹ What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. ¹⁰ As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; ¹¹ There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. ¹² They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”  ¹³ “Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; The poison of asps is under their lips”;  ¹⁴ “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”  ¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;  ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways;  ¹⁷And the way of peace they have not known.”  ¹⁸ “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

A:  Advantages for the Jews–Much. They had the Word of God.
B:  The Truth of God – Is He a Liar?
C:  God’s Character in Question–His Righteousness and Justice
B’:  The Truth of God – Cheap Grace?
A’:  Advantages for the Jews—None! All are Sinners.