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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.

What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(A) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(B) Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(C) Their condemnation is just!

No One Is Righteous

What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?(D) Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.(E)

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