Romans 3:8

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come”?—just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just. 1 All Have Sinned

English Majority Text (NT)

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

7For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

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Cross References

Romans 5:20But the law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

1 Peter 3:16having a good conscience, so that in what they speak against you as evildoers, those reviling your good conduct in Christ 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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