⁸ and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say -- `We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.

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

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

¹¹ `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

¹⁷ for `it is' better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

⁴ for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,