Romans 3:4

⁴Absit! Exstet autem Deus verax, omnis autem homo mendax, sicut scriptum est: " Ut iustificeris in sermonibus tuis et vincas cum iudicaris ".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