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But if our unrighteousness [a](A)demonstrates the righteousness of God, (B)what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? ((C)I am speaking in human terms.) (D)May it never be! For otherwise, how will (E)God judge the world? But if through my lie (F)the truth of God abounded to His glory, (G)why am I also still being judged as a sinner? And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “(H)Let us do evil that good may come”? [b]Their condemnation is just.

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  1. Romans 3:5 Or commends
  2. Romans 3:8 Lit Whose

But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)(A) By no means! For then how could God judge the world? But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner? And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their judgment is deserved!(B)

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