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

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Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(A) Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(B) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(C) Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(D) Their condemnation is just!

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