And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,