λέγειν (legein) in Romans 3:8: Verb Present Active Infinitive

Verb: the word names an action of speaking or saying, here functioning as an infinitive rather than a finite assertion.

Present: often views the action as in progress, customary, or presently in view. Context decides the exact force.

Active: presents the subject as doing or carrying the action.

Infinitive: names the verbal idea without finite person. It often works as purpose, result, complement, or explanation in context.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Singular: this label does not apply to the infinitive as a person-number form, so it should not be used to infer a singular subject here.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

φασί τινες ἡμᾶς

The infinitive λέγειν is governed by the reporting idea in φασί, with ὅτι introducing the reported content that follows.

It functions as part of indirect discourse, expressing what some people allegedly say about us before the quoted proposal.

It is not a main finite verb of the verse, and it does not itself state the command or the moral conclusion.

High: The infinitive keeps the objection in reported speech, guarding readers from hearing it as Paul's own moral instruction.

Present active infinitive. expresses the alleged saying before the rejected statement that follows. Attached to the reporting clause about what some claim. Governed by the verb phasi. The infinitive belongs to indirect discourse and should not be detached from the accusation frame.

Whose statement is being represented? It represents what some people falsely claim Paul and his companions say.

Supporting: The infinitive supports report wording such as as some claim that we say.

The infinitive is part of reported speech, not Paul's own direct command. Present infinitive does not by itself prove duration or habitual teaching. The moral evaluation comes from the whole verse, especially the rejection that follows.

Infinitive creates a standalone instruction: The form is governed by the reporting clause and represents an accusation. present means habitual endorsement: The present infinitive should not be used to turn the slander into Paul's actual teaching.

The witness reads λέγειν in Romans 3:8 within the TR Scrivener 1894 text, in a clause about what some people claim others say.

The lemma is λέγω, a common verb for saying, speaking, or declaring, so the form points to verbal report rather than another lexical idea.

As an infinitive after a reporting verb, it supports the sense of indirect speech: some accuse Paul and his group of saying something, namely, let us do evil that good may come.

The grammar helps frame the statement as a reported slander or misrepresentation, not as Paul's own endorsement of evil for good results.

This fits the larger Pauline rebuttal in the verse, which ends by rejecting the claim and judging it as deserved.

In translation and teaching, the form should be rendered in a way that preserves reported speech and avoids making the accusation sound like direct apostolic instruction.

Do not derive doctrinal approval, speaker identity beyond the context, or any special meaning from the infinitive form alone.