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“Mas”, dirá alguém, “se a nossa injustiça serve para estabelecer a justiça de Deus, que havemos de dizer? Não será Deus injusto ao exercer a sua ira?” (Estou a expressar-me de um ponto de vista humano.) De forma alguma! Como poderia ele assim julgar o mundo? E se a verdade divina abundou por causa da minha mentira, a fim de ele ser glorificado, por que razão sou condenado como pecador?

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But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(A) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(B) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(C) Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(D) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(E)

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But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (A)(I speak as a man.) Certainly not! For then (B)how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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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?

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