Romans 3:8

However, we must not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come” (as some people slanderously claim that we do)—their condemnation is well deserved!

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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

7Still, if the truth of God abounded to His glory by my falsehood, just why am I still judged as a sinner?

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

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Cross References

Romans 5:20However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,

Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!

1 Peter 3:16keeping a good conscience, so that wherein they speak against you as evildoers, those who revile your good way of life 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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