断乎不能。不如说,神是真实的,人都是虚谎的。如经上所记,你责备人的时候,显为公义。被人议论的时候,可以得胜。God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
我且照着人的常话说,我们的不义,若显出神的义来,我们可以怎吗说呢。神降怒,是他不义吗。But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
[BR]若神的真实,因我的虚谎,越发显出他的荣耀,为什么我还受审判,好像罪人呢。For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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为什么不说,我们可以作恶以成善呢,这是毁谤我们的人,说我们有这话。这等人定罪,是该当的。And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
这却怎吗样呢。我们比他们强吗。决不是的。因为我们已经证明,犹太人和希腊人都在罪恶之下。What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;