Blessed are you when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say every evil word against you falsely because of Me.

having a good conscience, that when they speak against you as evildoers, those who falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Moreover the Law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law but under grace? Let it not be!

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Let it not be! On the contrary, I would not have understood sin except through the Law. For I would not have known lust unless the Law had said, You shall not covet.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were set forth to this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.