Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 3:8

"and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just." — Romans 3:8 (ASV)

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. (Romans 3:8).

We never said, we never even thought, that we might do evil so that good might come; no, if all the good in the world could come from a single evil action, we would have no right to do it. We must never do evil with the hope of advancing God's cause.

If God chooses to turn evil into good, as He often does, that is no reason why we should do evil, and it is no justification of sin. The murder of Christ at Calvary has brought the greatest possible benefit to us; yet it was a high crime against God—the greatest of all crimes—when humanity committed deicide and killed the Son of God.

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.

If any man dares to say that, "Since God turns even evil into good, and by the forgiveness of sin brings glory to himself, Let us do evil that good may come," he is wrestling truth to his own destruction, and his damnation is just.