Romans 3:4

⁴Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”b

Romans 3 is the theological hinge of the letter. Paul dismantles every human claim to righteousness—Jew and Gentile alike—and declares that all stand guilty before God. The law, far from saving, only silences every mouth. Then, in a thunderclap of grace, Paul unveils the gospel: a r