But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict (A)wrath on us? ((B)I speak in a human way.) By no means! For then how could (C)God judge the world? But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, (D)why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not (E)do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

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