Romans 3:8

Or shall we say as some have slanderously reported us to say: We will do evil things, that good results may come? The condemnation of such is reserved for justice.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

7But if the truth of God hath been furthered by my falsehood, to his glory; why am I then condemned as a sinner?

9What then, have WE the superiority, when we have before decided as to both Jews and Gentiles, that all of them are under sin?

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Cross References

Romans 5:20And the entrance given to the law, was that sin might increase: and where sin increased, there grace abounded.

Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it.

1 Peter 3:16in meekness and respect, as having a good conscience; so that they who speak against you as bad men, may be ashamed, for having calumniated your good conduct in the Messiah.

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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