Romans 3:8

And why not say (just as some slanderously claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.

Text-Critical English 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 through my lie the truth of God abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

9What then? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

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Cross References

Romans 5:20Now the law came in so that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,

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

1 Peter 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that, when those who revile your good conduct in Christ speak against you as evildoers, they 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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