But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?(A) And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”?(B) Their condemnation is deserved!

The Whole World Guilty before God

What then? Are we any better?[a] Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews(C) and Gentiles[b](D) are all under sin,[c](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:9 Are we Jews any better than the Gentiles?
  2. Romans 3:9 Lit Greeks
  3. Romans 3:9 Under sin’s power or dominion

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

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.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

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