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NASB | Romans 3:8 And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:8 And why not say, (as some slanderously report and claim that we teach) "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? Their condemnation [by God] is just. |
Bible Question: Why was Paul accused of promoting evil? |
Bible Answer: And here is Paul's response to those accusations.."He says no more by way of confutation but that, whatever they themselves may argue, the damnation of those is just. Some understand it of the slanderers; God will justly condemn those who unjustly condemn his Truth. Or, rather, it is applied to those who embolden themselves in sin under a pretence of God's getting glory to himself out of it. Those who deliberately do evil that good may come of it will be so far from escaping, under the shelter of that excuse, that it will rather justify their damnation, and render them the more inexcusable; for sinning upon such a surmise, and in such a confidence, argues a great deal both of the wit and the will in the sin- a wicked will deliberately to choose the evil, and a wicked wit to palliate it with the pretence of good arising from it. Therefore their damnation is just; and whatever excuses of this kind they may now please themselves with, they will none of them stand good in the great day, but God will be justified in His proceedings, and all flesh, even the proud flesh that now lifts up itself against Him, shall be silent before Him. Some think Paul herein refers to the approaching ruin of the Jewish church and nation, which their obstinacy and self-justification in their unbelief hastened upon them apace."Matthew Henry Unabridged Commentary of the Whole Bible (Hendrickson) page 2199.. |
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