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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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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Footnotes

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