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For if the truth of God through my lie hath abounded more unto His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

And why not say rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come”? Their damnation is just!

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise! For we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.

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

No One Is Righteous

What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?(D) Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.(E)

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