Romans 3:8

We be slanderously reported. Literally, “we are blasphemed.” The false report was a gross misrepresentation of Paul’s faith and doctrine, and yet it was “affirmed” that the apostle had said such things. The charge that Paul, and Christians generally, were guilty of teaching such error was apparently an inference drawn from such teachings as that a man is justified by faith and not by works of law (ch. 3:20, 28) and that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (ch. 5:20). The foil refutation of this charge is presented in ch. 6.

Damnation. That is, condemnation or judgment. It is not clear whether the last clause refers to the slanderers just mentioned or to those who would dare to say, “Let us do evil, that good may come,” or to those who speak and act according to such a pernicious principle. The latter interpretation seems to fit the context better, for Paul’s allusion to the slanderers is only incidental to his main purpose in vs. 5-8, that of cutting off from the Jews every possible claim of exemption from God’s judgment.