Romans 3:8

Why not say, as we are falsely reported to say, and as some affirm that we say, “Let us do evil, so that good may come”? The judgment on them is just.

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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 the truth of God through my lie provides abundant praise for him, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

9What then? Are we excusing ourselves? Not at all. For we have already accused both Jews and Greeks, all of them, of being under sin.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 40:16But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do this thing, for you are telling lies about Ishmael.”

Romans 5:20But the law came in to increase the trespass. But where sin abounded, grace abounded even more.

Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.

1 Peter 3:16Have a good conscience so that the people who insult your good life in Christ may be ashamed because they are speaking against you as if you were evildoers.

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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