Romans 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And not rather,(as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say ,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Romans 3:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 5:20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Jude 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it; but divine truths must be cleared from cavil. Object. 1. If Jew and Gentile stand so much upon the same level before God, what advantage then hath the Jew? Hath not God often spoken with a great deal of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

7-8. For if the truth of God, &c.--A further illustration of the same sentiment: that is, “Such reasoning amounts to this--which indeed we who preach salvation by free grace are slanderously accused of teaching--that the more evil we do, the more glory will redound to God; a damnable principle.” (Thus the apostle, instead of refuting this principle, thinks it enough to hold it up to execration, as…