Romans 3:8

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

Majority Standard Bible

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 my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 40:16But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie.”

Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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

1 Peter 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you as evildoers may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

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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