[a]Now if our [b]unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? is God unrighteous which punisheth? (I speak as [c]a man.)

God forbid: (else how shall God judge the world?)

[d]For if the [e]verity of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:5 Another prevention, issuing out of the former answer: that the justice of God is in such sort commended and set forth by our unrighteousness, that therefore God forgetteth not that he is the judge of the world, and therefore a most severe revenger of unrighteousness.
  2. Romans 3:5 Treachery, and all the fruits thereof.
  3. Romans 3:5 Therefore I speak not these words in mine own person, as though I thought so, but this is the talk of man’s wisdom, which is not subject to the will of God.
  4. Romans 3:7 A third objection which addeth somewhat to the former, If sins do turn to the glory of God, they are not only not to be punished, but we ought rather to give ourselves to them: which blasphemy Paul contending himself to curse and detest, pronounceth just punishment against such blasphemers.
  5. Romans 3:7 The truth and constancy.

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