"6 "By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just."
Paul agrees that manipulating the nature of God's righteousness to our benefit is the height of sinfulness.
"Twisting the glorious free gift of God in Jesus into a supposed license to sin is perhaps the summit of man's depravity. It takes the most beautiful gift of God and perverts it and mocks it. This twisting is so sinful Paul saves it for last, because it is beyond the depravity of the pagan (Romans 1:24-32) and beyond the hypocrisy of the moralist (Romans 2:1-5)."
Oh Dear Lord, I pray Psalm 97:10 over my life this day:
"Let me who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked."
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