Romans 3:7-8

Romans 3:7-8

[7] if  the truth  of God  hath more abounded  through  my  lie  unto  his  glory;  why  yet  I also  judged  as  a sinner?  [8] And  not  rather, (as  we be slanderously reported,  and  as  some  affirm  say,)  Let us do  evil,  that  good  may come?  whose  damnation  just. 

What does Romans 3:7-8 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

The fourth question is very similar to the third. Perhaps Paul raised it as a response to his immediately preceding answer ( Romans 3:1-29). It clarifies the folly of the idea expressed in the third question. What an objector might really be saying in question three comes out in question four. If my lying, for example, glorifies God by showing Him to be the only perfectly truthful person, why does God punish me for lying? Paul had been stressing reality and priorities in chapter2. This objection gets down to that level. If circumcision is of secondary importance compared to perfect obedience to God, is not sinning of secondary importance to glorifying God?
Paul"s reply was that in spite of accusations to the contrary he had not taught that the end justifies the means. Circumcision was secondary, but it was not sinful. God will not overlook sin, though He will overlook lack of circumcision ( Romans 2:26-29). If anyone thinks that God should overlook his sinning because in a sense it glorifies God, that person deserves condemnation ( Romans 3:8). Paul implied that this objection is so absurd that it is not worth considering.
To summarize, in Romans 3:1-8 Paul raised and answered four objections that a Jew might have offered to squirm out from under the guilty verdict Paul had pronounced on him in chapter2. The essential objections are as follows.
1.The Jews are a privileged people ( 1714067605_28).2.God will remain faithful to the Jews despite their unfaithfulness to Him ( Romans 3:3-4).3.God will be merciful since the Jews" failings have magnified God"s righteousness.4.God will overlook the Jews" sins since they contribute to the glory of God.
Self-righteous people still raise these objections. Some people assume that because God has blessed them He will not condemn them (objection one). Some believe the character of God prohibits Him from condemning them (objection two). Some think that even though they have sinned God will be merciful and not condemn them (objection three). Some feel that since everything we do glorifies God in some way God would be unjust to condemn them (objection four).
"Thousands of Song of Solomon -called "church-members" not only have never been brought under real conviction of sin and guilt and personal danger, but rise in anger like the Jews of Paul"s day when one preaches their danger directly to them!" [1]