And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
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