Help with simple Greek!

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*In Romans 2: 1, So we are inexcusable.

Is it possible to take this is the sense: “Now we can be good, so be good!”?
 
No, that’s not the sense that I would take from this verse.

Paul is talking about how God judges. In the past, Jews would have claimed a privilege: “I am beloved of God because I’m a child of Abraham.”

Now, however, Paul is preaching a salvation that comes aside from one’s ethnicity: salvation comes from love of Christ and adherence to His word. Therefore, if anyone points to another and says “he’s a sinner, so he’s damned,” Paul replies, “you have no logical argument to make here: if you point to a sinner and call him ‘damned’, you need to realize that you’re a sinner too. And, if he’s damned because he’s a sinner, guess what that says about you…”

Paul is pointing out (especially to Jews) that they can’t simply point to Gentiles and say, “look how bad they are!”
 
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