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But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
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(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
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And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.
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What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
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As it is written: There is not any man just.
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There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.
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All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.
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Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Their feet swift to shed blood: