Romans 3:5

⁵Si autem iniustitia nostra iustitiam Dei commendat, quid dicemus? Numquid iniustus Deus, qui infert iram? Secundum hominem dico.

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