Romans 3:8 (WEB)
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
“But they lead a licentious life, and, to conceal their impious doctrines, they abuse the name [of Christ], as a means of hiding their wickedness; so that “their condemnation is just,” when they receive from God a recompense suited to their works.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
““But if the truth of God shall abound by my lie,” are we too to say, “Let us do evil that good may come?”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 7, 8
Read the whole comment“There it is said, “Let us do good, because we have done evil;” but here, “Let us do evil that good may come.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 8
Read the whole comment“For a man may say, “If ‘he to whom little is forgiven, loveth little;’ and he to whom more is forgiven, loveth more; and it is better to love more, than to love…” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“Thou seest that we are the ones who cause it to be said “Let us do evil, that good may come.” ( Rom. iii. 8.)” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Having expanded a thought of this kind at some length in his argument to the Romans, and having retorted upon himself with the counter-conclusion, which thence necessarily follows, that the sinner could no longer be justly blamed, if his…” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3–9; iv. 1, 2; ix. 14–24; xi. 22–36.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Nunquid autem ad hos verba sua dirigens, scribit Apostolus in Epistola ad Romanos: “Et non sicut blasphemamur, et sicut dicunt aliqui nos dicere: Faciamus mala, ut eveniant bona, quorum justa est damnatio?”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: “Let us do evil until the good things come; whose condemnation is just.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 8.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 32.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 32.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 32.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 32.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 1.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 1.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.25.