Romans 3:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And why not say, (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say,) 'Let us do evil that good may come'? Their condemnation is just.

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  • Rom 6:1 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'
  • 1 Pet 3:16-17 : 16 Having a good conscience, so that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more:

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  • Rom 3:3-7
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    3For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

    4Certainly not: indeed, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, 'That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged.'

    5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man)

    6Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world?

    7For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

    10As it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one:'

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

  • 17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

    3And do you think this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

  • 2 Cor 13:7-8
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    7Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honest, though we be as reprobates.

    8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

  • 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

  • 16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

  • 14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

  • 20Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

  • 13Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

  • 12That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • Gal 1:8-9
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    8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

    9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

  • 3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • 33Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

  • 16But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

  • 4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 17For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

  • 2Receive us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

  • 8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

  • 12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 17For we are not like many who corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

  • 16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

  • 13Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

  • 16As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

  • 30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith.

  • 12If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • 32Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

  • 20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  • 3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

  • 3Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed:

  • 8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

  • 9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 16And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.

  • 2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

  • 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness;

  • 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

  • 3Is not destruction for the wicked, and a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity?

  • 4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.