⁷ Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

⁴ For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁷ "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

² "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

³ Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

⁴ For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'

⁵ He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁴ Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

²¹ Please don't let me respect any man's person, Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

²² For I don't know how to give flattering titles; Or else my Maker would soon take me away.

² They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

⁶ May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸ Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.