^{5 Ref} 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 Ref} May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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

^{8 Ref} 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.