⁸Why not say, “Let’s do evil things so that good things will happen”? Some people actually lie by reporting that this is what we say. They are the ones who should be found guilty.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

NLTNew Living Translation

And some people even slander us by claiming that we say, “The more we sin, the better it is!” Those who say such things deserve to be condemned.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And why not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, in order that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is just!

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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