But if our unrighteousness highlights[a] God’s righteousness,(A) what are we to say?(B) I am using a human argument:[b](C) Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?(D) But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?(E) And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”?(F) Their condemnation is deserved!

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  1. 3:5 Or shows, or demonstrates
  2. 3:5 Lit I speak as a man

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.) May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner? And why not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, in order that good may come of it? Their[a] condemnation is just!

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  1. Romans 3:8 Literally “whose”