¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

¹³ For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

¹⁶ as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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.

²⁰ The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;

²¹ that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³¹ Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

⁴ For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.