Romans 3:5-8
5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
Our continued unrighteousness does not show God’s righteousness, just our need for it. Because we are all sinners, God is not unjust to pour out His wrath on the world. He has every right and requirement to do so. He made us originally in His image to honor Him by doing and thinking what we do for His glory. But if we do wrong to somehow let God show more goodness, then the world’s accusations that we sin more to get good from God would be true. When we do right, trusting only that our righteousness comes down to God’s alone in Christ, then the condemnation of our false accusers is well earned.
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