Romans 3:8

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

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In The King James Version

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

In Context

7But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 40:16But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You are not to do this: for what you say about Ishmael is false.

Romans 5:20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 6:15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

1 Peter 3:16Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19

The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art… Read the whole commentary →

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